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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2080
Released: October 27, 1998 |
| Our Price: $5.79 |
| Used Price: $4.38 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Catherine mccormack plays veronica franco the real-life courtesan who used her influence over the most powerful men in europe to change her own life and the course of world events. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Mccormack Rufus Sewell Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Director: Marshall Herskowitz
Description of Dangerous Beauty:
Although it was unfortunately ignored during its brief theatrical release, this sumptuously seductive production is that rarest of cinematic breeds, the (barely) respectable guilty pleasure. Combining historical fact with hysterical anachronisms of language and mannerism, it's been tailored for maximum contemporary appeal but maintains a lush, romantic feel for its factual 16th-century tale of Venetian love, lust, and political repression. Catherine McCormack (Mel Gibson's ill-fated bride in Braveheart) delivers a star-making performance as the "dangerous beauty" who becomes a skillful courtesan to pursue her forbidden love for a dashing Venetian senator (Rufus Sewell). It's all rather silly in a high-toned fashion, and the film turns dour when the church intervenes with a Scarlet Letter-like papal inquest. But the movie's joyously ribald vitality is utterly irresistible, and the casting of McCormack with Jaqueline Bisset (as her mother and courtesan mentor) is a stroke of pure genius. Merchant-Ivory would've made a smarter film from this material, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
Dangerous Beauty Reviews:
Visual beauty. 
2009-11-09 - The first time I saw this movie I decided I must go to Venice. Within a year, there I was. I wanted to own it so I could watch it again and again. Great music, costumes, and wonderful performances.
One of my favorite
2009-10-25 - This is a great movie, with a wonderful cast, beautiful scenaries of Venice and amazing customes, all to make this love story a "must" in your collection.
Dangerous Beauty
2009-09-29 - Superb cast, costumes,story, dialogue, sets.
A really complete and marvelous romance/period piece and it is true.
Great Movie
2009-09-24 - I love this movie! So glad that it works in Australia, I was not sure that it would seeing that it came from the states!!
Bought movie for gf... came brandnew, pretty good movie... 
2009-04-24 - alright movie, shipping was kinda slow but the movie was new and was a pretty good movie... just bought it for my gf but i didnt mind watching it...
