Diva Dolorosa (1999) [Re-UP]

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Date: Oct. 19, 2015

Diva Dolorosa (1999)
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 01:07:49 | 3,28 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps with Dutch-English-Italian intertitles and English subs
Genre: Art-house, Documentary

Director: Peter Delpeut
Stars: Francesca Bertini, Lyda Borelli, Soava Gallone

During the silent period, a surprising number of opera stars found themselves starring in movies, especially in Europe, and while the voices that were their fortune could not be heard, their hyper-emotional histrionics often communicated with unusual power on the big screen. Filmmaker Peter Delpeut, who previously examined the mysterious and otherworldly images of early cinema in Lyrical Nitrate, has compiled footage from a dozen operatic silents released between 1913 and 1920 in his feature Diva Dolorosa. Edited for emotional and visual impact rather than narrative clarity, Diva Dolorosa features vintage performances from such singing stars as Lyda Borelli, Pina Meichelli, and Francesca Bertini. The film also boasts an original score by Loek Dikker, which was performed with a live orchestra for the film's world premiere at the 1999 Holland Film Festival.

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I initially rented this video, and after viewing it, knew I wanted to have it as part of my collection of Italian cinema on dvd. This is silent film at its most romantic, dramatic, and poetic. At first you might want to giggle at the over-the-top performances, but as you watch you see the truth at the core of the scenes. Bits and pieces may seem absurd, and yet it is also the language of a mirror…your own passions, suffering and impulses, acted out, on the silver screen…so long ago. It is haunting and beautiful, and you will never forget it. Highly recommended for those who adore art, love Italian cinema or silent film, and for all the romantics out there. Enjoy!
Customer Review, amazon.com

The legacy of Italian cinema is the primary axe being ground in “Diva Dolorosa” (1999), making its long overdue appearance on DVD almost a decade after it dazzled authentic cinephiles at film festivals all over. Even so, it’s a Dutch film, a found-footage assemblage constructed by professional archive plunderer Peter Delpeut (“Lyrical Nitrate,” “The Forbidden Quest”) out of footage from a particular genre of Italian silent films: the Black Romantic melodramas of the 1910s, in which tragically willful, independent fin-de-siècle aristocratic women self-destructed, dramatically and hyper-tragically, in the name of love. The genre, which pervaded other mediums as well, might be the first and last word on the communion between sex and death, and the clips Delpeut uses are chockablock with swoony melancholy and suicidal ardor.


Despite their age, many of them look remarkably accomplished as pieces of cinema; perhaps the archives will eventually DVD-up complete editions of “La Donna Nuda” (1914) and “Rapsodia Satanica” (1915) (both of which star the Black Romantic Garbo, Lyda Borelli). But Delpeut is crafting a found-object poem here, with a rhapsodic orchestral score and a sure sense of how so much weepy, proto-campy mega-sadness can collect in your head as a statement about its own culture, and also as a palpably beautiful, tragic spectacle despite the odor of antique cheese. But of course, “Diva Dolorosa” is really about cinema itself, and therefore about lost time, and therein lies in deepest and loveliest sorrow.
IFC

A rhapsodic, heart-rendingly scored tone poem about fin-de-siècle Black Romanticism…. Anyone with a weakness for the naked tragedy of frozen cinematic time will plotz and then some.
Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

A rarity-packed treat for opera and silent-film buffs!
Variety

Along with the ancient, sepia-toned quality of the footage itself, the Diva Dolorosa project suggests that cinema is always, on some level, about the restoration of lost moments.
Rob Nelson, City Pages

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