Aria (1987)

Directed by

Bill Bryden, Charles Sturridge, Bruce Beresford, Franc Roddam

Genre

musical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Aria is an anthology film with ten short segments by different directors. Each one sets a visual story to a famous operatic aria, with little dialogue. The film mixes different styles and moods across its episodes.

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What happens

Aria is a 1987 British anthology film produced by Don Boyd that consists of ten short films by ten different filmmakers, each showing the director's choice of visual accompaniment to one or more operatic arias. There is little or no dialogue, with most words coming from the libretto of the operas in Italian, French, or German. The film was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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