Movie Details
Cast & Crew
S
Stella Doufexis
as La Muse / Nicklausse
Les Contes DHoffmann
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 Pys baroque imagination which sometimes leads him into selfindulgence and incoherence is well suited to bringing out this operas darkness and he does an excellent job
