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starring: Claudio Amendola, Paul Brooke, Lothaire Bluteau, Claudia Cardinale, Joaquim de Almeidadirected by: Alastair Reid
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304278970
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304278977
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: January 28, 1997
Sales Rank: 9646
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 1997
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - unexceptional
While not great, this movie certainly warrants a look before one tackles what is universally considered a difficult-to-read novel. At least you can get the basic contours of what's going on before wading into Conrad's stiff and tasking prose. This is a boon, certainly. Following the book more or less closely, as it does, it will clear a lot of otherwise murky things up for you.
As for the acting, there is a mixed bag here. The actors playing Charles Gould, Nostromo, and the Doctor, ... Read More
Rating:  - Archimedes Succeeds
When Archimedes declared that he could lift the earth with a long enough lever,the extent of his endeavors became readily apparent. Joseph Conrad in "Nostromo" attempted much more using the lever of language.He created his own universe with the finest prose that has ever been written.
The BBC attempted not much less converting this perhaps best ever work of literature into film. I congratulate them first for their enormous courage, their incredible endurance, and for their excellent production. ... Read More
Rating:  - Fine, Except for Two Huge Flaws
One of the great shames of Cinema history is that David Lean died while working on bringing Nostromo to the big screen. He was the perfect man for the assignment, given his track record for bringing larger than life stories to audiences around the world. This effort, while commendable on several fronts, lacks the vision and scope that Lean would no doubt have brought to the endeavor.
The usual BBC miniseries apparata are at play here: solid cinematography, script, editing, directing, etc. The problem ... Read More
Rating:  - A rant
NOSTROMO is the BBC production of Joseph Conrad's novel of the same title. Set in the second half of the 1800s in the fictional South American backwater of Costaguana, the country's only resource is a silver mine owned and operated by a British entrepreneur. The indigenous people are exploited, naturally.
As the film opens, a local demagogue mounts a popular insurgence against the hated foreigners, during which spasm the mine owner is slaughtered. The storyline quickly moves forward a couple of decades ... Read More
Rating: - Pleasent surprise
...it caught my attention. As I continued to watch it I was drawn further into it. It is a long movie, I think about 4 hours but the ending was really surprising. Its a must see movie.
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