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Dangerous Beauty (1998) Rank 5 Reviews
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Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Overall, this score is highly recommendable to those who enjoy
classically oriented film music. Solo guitar cues round out the score,
and along with the spunky playfulness in the first half of the score,
Dangerous Beauty will likely ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
This film deals frankly with adult subject matter, but the story is not cheapened by the strong sexuality portrayed. It is a complement to all the other elements: the emotion of the love story, the drama of the climactic tribunal, and the overall ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
To some people, nothing is more frightening than a smart woman. To others, nothing is more attractive.So discovers Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th-century Venice in Marshall Herskovitz's new ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
FilmLand Web (Robert Konop)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
``The life you lead, the freedom you have--will you deny my daughters the same chance?'' Not the request every mother would address to a prostitute, but ``Dangerous Beauty'' makes a ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Marshall Herskovitz directs this alternatively comic and earnestly serious period piece based on the biography of a famous 16th century poet/courtesan, Veronica Franco. As a girl, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) has only eyes for Marco Venier ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Nathaniel R. Atcheson
IMDB.com
by contemporary filmmakers is usually ignored by Hollywood.Today known merely as a tourist attraction, citystate of Venice usedto be one of the major powers of medieval and Renaissance Europe,with enormous wealth based on trade and plunder and protected ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at IMDB.com
Scott Renshaw
If you smell a tale of degradation and class warfare in the making, sniff again. DANGEROUS BEAUTY actually paints quite a rosy portrait of Veronica's life while presenting an intriguing history lesson in gender politics. While the noble ladies of Venice ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Scott Renshaw
Matt's Movie Reviews (Matt Easterbrook)
Home Theater Info (Doug MacLean)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Dangerous Beauty is a lavish historical melodrama that has enough suds, sex, and flashes of flesh to appeal to soap opera-lovers and enough substance to attract those of a more intellectual bent. However, while the movie does more than pay lip service to ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
The film takes place during the Renaissance, a time when Venice was the pleasure capital of Europe. At this time, Venice was its own republic, and it thrived on being the central juncture of East-West commerce. The film is told almost entirely through ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
As is the case with too many melodramas designed to give the audience a triumphant rush,
Dangerous Beauty goes over the top in its closing moments, offering speech-making and
grandstanding that undercuts some of the film's drama. Still, ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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The Boston Phoenix
eye WEEKLY (Malene Arpe)
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
The Spinning Image (Samantha David)
The Honest Courtesan, directed by Marshall Herskovitz, is delightful old tosh. Set in Venice, it has lush, sexy costumes, squidgy photography, sunny back-lighting and swelling violins. As if that wasn’t enough, there is also cut'n'thrust sword-play, ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at The Spinning Image (Samantha David)
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AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Dangerous Beauty juggles comedy, drama, and heaving bosoms, sometimes successfully, other times awkwardly. Catherine McCormack's uber-prostitute and Oliver Platt's Maffio Venier (Marco's cousin, a sort of court jester who becomes insanely jealous of ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Mixed Reviews: The Arts, The World, and More (Jill Cozzi)
Boxoffice Magazine
Box Office Magazine
Fotograma.com
Los años de sangre de la historia Argentina han marcado ha más de un realizador que intenta volver sobre aquellos hecho para contarlos a su manera. Es lÃcito y posiblemente razonable que asà suceda.
Creo que las dificultades pasan por lo ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Fotograma.com
Philadelphia City Paper (Cindy Fuchs)
Catherine McCormack (last seen dying for love of Mel Gibson in Braveheart) is here struggling against the constraints of 16th-century Venetian aristocratic society. Unable to marry the man she loves (Rufus Sewell) because he's committed to an arranged ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Philadelphia City Paper (Cindy Fuchs)
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
By the time the end credits roll, though, Dangerous Beauty has become as trite and by-the-book as its title. ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
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Steve Rhodes
We learn, for example, that most women of that era, with the exception of courtesans, were not able to read. It seems the courtesans were the only females permitted in the libraries because they needed the knowledge to advise their clients in more ...read the complete Dangerous Beauty movie review at Steve Rhodes
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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User Reviews
by Sherry Lindemann on November 09, 2009
The first time I saw this movie I decided I must go to Venice. Within a year, there I was. I wanted to own it so I could watch it again and again. Great music, costumes, and wonderful performances. ...
by Fabiola Obregon on October 25, 2009
This is a great movie, with a wonderful cast, beautiful scenaries of Venice and amazing customes, all to make this love story a "must" in your collection. ...
by Linda Lynch Smoak on September 29, 2009
Superb cast, costumes,story, dialogue, sets.
A really complete and marvelous romance/period piece and it is true. ...
by Amy K. McLennan "... on September 24, 2009
I love this movie! So glad that it works in Australia, I was not sure that it would seeing that it came from the ...
by Jolly's Lady "Mic... on April 04, 2009
My four daughters and I love this movie. It does have a few sex scenes (they cover their adult eyes when we watch it together). The Venetian scenery is an amazing backdrop for one of the few movies about courtesans. The heroine is intelligent, athletic ...
by Ankur Mukherjee on January 24, 2009
I am not much familiar with the novel, but I must say its a beautifull story, fabulously acted, well directed. Catherine Mccormack was excellent, well what can I say about her, her performence is beyond words, shunned me to silence during the film, one ...
by Stefano Casamenti on November 25, 2008
I SAW AT THE THEATRE ONE EVENING AND FOR ALL THE WEEK I BEEN TO SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN . SO GREAT MOVIE . WHAT CAN I SAID IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE YOU MUST SEE IT AND JUDGE YORSELF . ...
by Amya "Amya" on September 16, 2008
Great Movie, true story, However I only needed ONE copy, NOT TWO!!!!! I returned the 2nd movie and still have not been refunded. Please refund my account for the movie that was ...
by laura peyton on August 04, 2008
Dangerous Beauty is in my top 50 of all time favorites. It has something for everyone - romance, humor, history - and is underscored by a lovely soundtrack. The characters are well cast. My daughter did a term paper on Veronica Franco and the role of ...
by bad3615 "bad3615" on July 05, 2008
This movie is fantastic. It has a wonderful love story, the costumes and settings are beautiful and the fictional history is not far from fact. ...
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