Evita [1997] | ![Evita [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B5P0JTWNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 776
Format: Pal, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239190179
ASIN: B00004D35R
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 1997
Release Date: May 21, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
After more than a decade of false starts and several potential directors, the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical finally made it to the big screen with Alan Parker (The Commitments) at the helm and Madonna in the coveted title role of Argentina's first lady, Eva Perón. A triumph of production design, costuming, cinematography, and epic-scale pageantry, the film follows the rise of Eva Perón to the level of supreme social and political celebrity in the 1940s. Like Madonna, Perón was a material girl (she was only 33 when she died); she was instrumental in the political success of her husband, Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce). But Eva was also a supremely tragic figure whose life was essentially hollow at its core despite the lavish benefits of her nearly goddess-like status. The film Evita has a similar quality--it's visually astonishing but emotionally distant, and benefits greatly from the singing commentary of Ché (Antonia Banderas), who serves as a passionate chorus to guide the viewer through the elaborate parade of history. --Jeff Shannon
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 Brilliant! March 9, 2008
Jamie fan (Wales)
I had never seen Evita before I watched this DVD - and what an introduction! The songs were sung brilliantly, although I was expecting them not to be, and the storyline made me laugh and cry at alternate intervals. Viva Evita!
Absolutely first class December 1, 2007
Rascal Fan (U.K.)
I much enjoyed this excellent film when I first saw it in the cinema some years ago. Seeing it again on DVD brings all that enjoyment back. While I realise that many critics disagree, in my view the film is beautifully done, and the DVD does it full justice.
Madonna acts and sings the part of Evita perfectly, and the supporting cast and the direction are also very good. The film really scores in the atmosphere it subtly creates around Evita, showing her emotional appeal to the masses clearly. The large-scale scenes of the marches in her support, the sporadic violence in the streets, and her funeral procession, are very powerful. Above all she comes over as a real person, faults and all, in the more intimate scenes. Her husband is sensitively played by Jonathan Pryce, while Antonio Banderas is great in his changing moods as the narrator. Andrew Lloyd Webber's fine music is enduringly evocative (and not overdone in the film, as some reviewers felt).
This is one of the very best films of recent years, and I am pleased to have the DVD, which I shall undoubtedly watch again in future.
 beautiful film, terrible dvd July 16, 2007
W. Neale (Longton, Stoke)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The big screen version of Evita has everything one expects from a film musical - great singing, great orchestra, a huge sense of scale... However, this DVD was released at the start of the DVD era, and lacks a Dolby Digital 5.1 track or an anamorphic transfer, so the image is soft and lacking in detail and the sound only in Dolby Pro-Logic. Your best bet is to purchase the French or Australian versions of the DVD, both of which have anamorphic transfers with excellent image quality and the full Dolby Digital 5.1 track, aswell as interviews, trailers and featurettes from the electronic press kit made at the time.
la la la this is my review la la May 13, 2007
M. O. HAYNES (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I liked this film. I liked Madonna, her acting fitted in with the style of the film nicely. I liked Jimmy Nail, his character and the way he delivered it was good. I liked Antonio Banderas, playing a kind of narrator that keeps popping up and letting you know what's going on - who knew he could sing? I liked the songs, the way the themes repeated themselves and intertwined. I liked the story, I felt a little educated along the way. The only thing I didn't like was the fact they sang EVERY line - it wierded me out. Yes I know it's a musical but they didn't do it in Oliver or Moulin Rouge, just seemed really silly at times.
Surprisingly effective throwback to the epic musicals of the 60s December 15, 2006
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Evita is a real throwback to 60s epic filmmaking, an incredibly spectacular adaptation that manages to be both stylised and still look authentic thanks to Alan Parker's excellent direction and Darius Khondji's striking Scope imagery that makes good use of the many lavish crowd scenes. The score is surprisingly good - just as well, since the movie is a virtual rock opera - and Antonio Banderas is a commanding and convincing enough musical presence to make you wonder what the Hell Andrew Lloyd Webber was thinking of dropping him from The Phantom of the Opera for the plank-like, flat-voiced but presumably much cheaper Gerard Butler. Madonna brings the required ruthless iconic status although her voice isn't always up to the demands of the part (she is especially flat when hitting the low notes and her rendition of Don't Cry For Me, Argentina lacks real power) and she's not much good at doing the tango, while the addition of a new song drags out the ending more than is necessary, but it's still the best movie musical in decades. The fact that Lloyd Webber hates it only adds to its appeal. And just think how bad it could have been had the Oliver Stone-Meryl Streep version got off the ground!
Sadly, Entertainment's 2.35:1 widescreem PAL DVD is barebones, featuring no extras at all.
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