Les Contes D'Hoffmann
Les Contes D'Hoffmann is one of the most talked-about Music movies released in 2008, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.
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 Py's baroque imagination, which sometimes leads him into self-indulgence and incoherence, is well suited to bringing out this opera's darkness and he does an excellent job
