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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305942979
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305942978
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 30693
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
Editorial Review:
Description:
In a very special brothel known as 'The Balcony,' the customers live out their wildest dreams, oblivious to a revolution that is going on outside. Directed by the award-winning Joseph Strick and based on acclaimed French avant-garde dramatist Jean Genet's play, this star-packed film features Shelley Winters as the brothel's madam and Peter Falk as her occasional lover, who enlists her help in halting the revolution. A young Leonard Nimoy heads the rebels, and Lee Grant is the madam's executive assistant who longs to return to her former role as just 'one of the girls.' With its insightfulness and delightfully fresh sense of humor, 'The Balcony' continues to provide a great view of the world's ironies.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pure DeSade
The vile Marquis was also a philosopher and proposed that the obstacle to true democracy was that some individuals are driven to lord it over others. His solution was freedom for sexual perversions. Let them take out their needs in brothels and private bedrooms instead of positions of power.
Genet develops this theme by showing individuals taking out their fantasies of power with girls in a brothel.
When the leaders of society disappear what is to happen? The customers ... Read More
Rating:  - A surrealist gem
Surrealist in intent, atmosphere and cinematography. Could be considered Dystopian as Orson Welle's 'The Trial', Soderbergh's 'Kafka'.
If you like David Lynch you will most assuredly enjoy this strange thought-provoking offering.
I am referring to the Image Entertainment August 1, 2000 release.
Though amazon.com states 1.33:1 (Academy Aspect ratio) - it appears, on my Sony 52" LCD, to be properly 16:9 Enhanced/Anamorphic (although it does start a little shifted ... Read More
Rating: - The satire of the power
This movie has a great cast where each character overcomes to the other one. It doesn't create you that it is an orthodox film; on the contrary, you should be very attentive to the game of circus mirrors that supposes each scene.
Rating: - Under our clothes we are all naked.
The Balcony is not just an ordinary extension to your house ... in this film it is a place where mortal men go to live out their fantasies. It is a modern day dream castle, where men can escape from the hardships of the real world and act out lives of important people that they may never have the opportunity of becoming. I use the word men for a reason in this review, because the "Balcony" is a brothel. It is a place where men go to fulfill not just their sexual fantasies, but also their dreams. If ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Piece of Theatre-TV
This is an arty-entertainment film. If you like NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, THE WICKER MAN, POWELL & PRESSBURGER FILMS, DENNIS POTTER TV, THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES ON TV -- and anything else that is different with an arty dramatic drive, you'll love this unique piece. Probably the closest that the USA has come to getting a European piece of theatre right. I'm not into arty rubbish, but into entertainment. If you have nothing against a made for TV theatre piece that is very poetic, and at times surrealistic, ... Read More
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