| Product Summary | | Publisher: Image | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00715515029421 | | Buy.com Sku: 207665651 | | Item#: V2PK24 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25077 | | Category Keywords: Love Story | | Rating: NR |
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Features: DVD, English, Subtitled
Editor's Note
A three-part drama which alternates between London and Macedonia. In Part 1, "Words," a young Macedonian monk protects a runaway Albanian girl. In Part 2, "Faces," focuses on a love affair in London. Part 3, "Pictures" is set back in Macedonia where a bloody ethnic conflict is brewing.
Plot Summary
Shot in Macedonia and London, "Before the Rain" is a haunting study of war and its tragic consequences -- especially when the fighting occurs between neighbors.| Divided into three sections, the connection between seemingly disparate events and people only becomes clear at the film's end. In "Words," a pure and innocent Macedonian monk breaks his vows in order to hide an Albanian girl accused of murder. "Faces" dramatizes an Englishwoman's struggle to choose between her husband and her lover, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who is about to return to his native Macedonia. And "Pictures," the final segment, follows the photographer as he tries to comprehend the violence and bloodshed that have so transformed his nation's landscape and turned one-time friends into bitter enemies.
| Features | Keep Case | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78 | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Stereo - Albanian, English, Macedonian, Serbian | | Subtitles - English - Optional | | Additional Release Material:
| Interviews: Rade Serbedzija - Actor | | Trailers: Theatrical Trailer | | Audio Commentary:
| 1. Milcho Manchevski - Director | | 2. Annette Insdorf - Film Critic | | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Essay: Ian Christie - Film Scholar | | Photo Galleries: Stills Galleries of Manchevski's Photographs and On-Set Shots |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 6/24/2008 |
| Running Time: 113 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1994 | | Catalog ID: 1749 | | UPC: 00715515029421 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Serbian | | Available Audio Tracks: Albanian, English, Macedonian, Serbian | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...A guarantee: It will haunt you for days..." 02/01/1995 p.26Rolling Stone
"...Manchevski succeeds on a grand scale with a groundbreaking film of love and war..." 03/23/1995 p.128 USA Today
"...[The film's] separate stories do have collective power..." 02/24/1996 p.5D Entertainment Weekly
"...Powerful, poetic, harrowing drama....Leav[es] a viewer stricken." -- Rating: A 03/17/1995 p.68 New York Times
"...Mr. Manchevski tells his story elegantly and leaves his audience with a warning too strong to be ignored..." 02/24/1995 p.C3 Sight and Sound
"...A revealing essay on gender and war....A film full of loaded symbolism..." 05/01/1995 p.38 Los Angeles Times
"...Manchevski is astute in letting the landscape figure so massively in his movie....Rade Serbedzija is a powerful presence..." 02/24/1995 p.F1 |
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