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Title: Disappointing
Review: This "filmed" version is actually a studio-bound performance shot on videotape. The production team used a Broadway aesthetic that I found glib, cliched, cynical and unimaginative. For instance, during the spinning wheel number, the camera pans 360 degrees to show the women in a circle. Cute, but it's an empty gesture which only serves to make Senta appear unsympathetic (the the director "clever", I suppose).The actors play to the back rows, eschewing the subtleties that can be caught on camera.I didn't find the singing to be strong, either.And the producers chose not to use Wagner's revised version, so the redemption motif is missing from the overture and the end.For Wagner on film, I would highly recommend a wonderful, traditional Meistersinger (Hamburg Opera 1970), or a real masterwork, Syberberg's Parsifal (1982).Hopefully Joachim Herz's Holländer film from the 1960s will be released on DVD someday.
