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Release Date: 7/4/2006
 Original Release: 2005
 Format: DVD
Length: 114 minutes
 Rating: Not Rated
 Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable)
 UPC: 796019794060
 Studio: Genius Productions, Inc.
Directed by: Laurence Dunmore
Featuring: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton

Categories: Dramas, Royalty, Theatrical Release, Prostitutes/Whores, Literature, Actresses
Description
An antidote to the sunny period pieces adopted from Jane Austen, which feature impeccably coiffed aristocracy engage in the witty banter of drawing room dramas and culminate in a most delightful denouement, THE LIBERTINE highlights the underbelly of the Britocracy of centuries past. Adapted from the play by Stephen Jeffreys, the plot follows the dastardly debauchery of the Earl of Rochester (a mischievous Johnny Depp). A hedonist who makes Oscar Wilde seem moralistic, the Earl spent his days and nights in beds, brothels, and bars, awakening from drunken blackouts only to stumble to the nearest whorehouse. Yet this ravishing rake was also possessed of a predilection for poetry, and turned his escapades into acid-tongued witticisms that pepper this frisky film.

Directed by first-timer Laurence Dunmore, the historical film picks up in 1678, when the Earl returns to London at the behest of King Charles II (magnetically played by John Malkovich, who starred in the play when it was staged at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre). With his young wife in tow, our rake immediately immerses himself into a litany of transgressions. When he meets a prostitute and burgeoning actress named Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), he obsessively takes her under his wing, crafting her into an acclaimed stage starlet and eventually bedding her. What follows is a spiral--upward, downward, and sideways--through the city's pleasure palaces, culminating in a quasi-tragic, quasi-relieving denouement. Melding the naughty energy of his PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN character with the brooding darkness of his wearied detective in FROM HELL, Depp gives a pitch-perfect performance that carries the film, eliciting strange sympathy for such a despicable devil. The score, by the award-winning composer Michael Nyman, adds even further moodiness and dramatic edge to the story.

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Audio:
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Average Rating: 3.75 / 5
Number of Reviews: 4 (view all)
4 / 5  Posted on May 31, 2007
Reviewed by: Lauren

In the beginning of this movie, you are told by John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, that you will not like him. That the gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. This movie is based...
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3 / 5  Posted on December 31, 2006
Reviewed by: Jarrod

John Wilmot tells us at the beginning of the Libertine that we will not like him, and he is certainly right about that. He is a destestable pervert, a selfish and insolent womanizer, a drunkard,...
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4 / 5  Posted on March 13, 2006
Reviewed by: Matthew

England, 1675. John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), the Earl of Rochester, finds his banishment lifted by King Charles II (John Malkovich). The King banished Wilmot a few months earlier for writing a poem...
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