Movie Details
Cast & Crew
J
Jacques Offenbach
Original Music Composer
E
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Original Story
J
Jules Barbier
Writer
P
Philippe Béziat
Director
P
Patrick Davin
Conductor
Les Contes D'Hoffmann
WriterJules Barbier
2 hr 51 minMusic
Plot
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger film (whose ideas it occasionally borrows). Olivier Py's baroque imagination, which sometimes leads him into self-indulgence and incoherence, is well suited to bringing out this opera's darkness and he does an excellent job
