Italian Festival - A Naxos Musical Journey dvd movie.|
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List Price: $9.97 Features • AC-3 • Classical • Color • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 2000 DVD Release : 28 April, 2000 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Good music, poor scenery choices |
| I purchased this video as a christmas gift for my fiance (who is obsessed with Italy since our recent trip there) hoping that it would focus more on italian scenery than the orchestral music. I was saddened when we watched it together on christmas morning and both felt severely dissapointed. It seems that a lot of effort was directed towards making the music sound perfect. So if you need a good ambiance cd, then this is for you. It's great for playing in the background, but make sure your TV is off. The scenes that were chosen are stale, and unprovocative. The video lacks arial shots (such as the recent "Italian Style: Nothern Italy" video which aired on PBS, which was breathtaking), and most of the scenes are of scrubby fishermen standing around staring at the camera. Another problem with the video portion of this DVD is that none of the BIG attractions of the cities are shown. For example, when Venice is in the spot light, they don't even show "Piazza San Marco", or "Il Palazzo Ducale". I'm not even sure that these shots were taken in Italy! They could have been taken in any town. The shot displayed on the cover isn't even IN the video all together! The video portion also lacks such things as a title bar indicating what town you are watching at the beginning of each video. This is extremely annoying as you have to EXIT the currently playing selection, and try to figure out which city is playing by staring at the scene selection screen (the currently playing city is in a different color). You may think this is bearable, but the video starts from the beginning again when you do this, which is not bearable at all since the video itself is painful to watch in the first place. All in all, this video DVD, should not be considered a video DVD at all. If you like the music, then buy it for this purpose, and this purpose alone. The DVD, IMHO, has really nothing to do with Italy. I returned my copy of it. |
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