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Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) a score of 2.8936 out of 4

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Movie Reviews UK

The action of the Voyager Company in making available the neglected Powell and Pressburger masterpiece Tales of Hoffman has been insufficiently acknowledged and applauded. Tales of Hoffman was released in 1951, at a time when the gritty realist school of...read the complete Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) review at Movie Reviews UK

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Film-Forward.com (DVD review)

This film version of the 1881 opera – sparklingly transferred from a British Film Institute restoration – does not shy away from artifice, emphasizing the tension between reality and illusion. The initial garishness perfectly serves the content....read the complete Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) review at Film-Forward.com (DVD review)

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DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach’s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a poet dreams of three women—a mechanical...read the complete Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951) review at DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)