MOVIES/VIDEO Amore

If you have found some new discovery, or there is a new Vangelis related release in your country, please write to me. If you can provide a scan, that would be even better! I'll add it here with your credit. Please help build this site! Write to me by clicking here!

The strange opening and closing titles for Amore, utilizing bizarre artwork and seemingly disconnected to the movie, are what will stick with you when watching the last of the three Henri Chapier/Vangelis film. Just like Sex Power (and even Salut, Jerusalem for that matter), the characters are more symbolic in presentation: the clean-cut reporter, the gritty photographer, the elusive beauty. And just like Sex Power, the main character is the location. For Sex Power, it was California.  For Amore, it is Venice.  Chapier was not so impressed with California and the free love movement, which was falling apart at the seems by the time Sex Power was filmed in 1970.  So too, Chapier seems to cut right into the idolized view of Venice.  The City of Love is torn apart, culminated in a rather uncomfortable scene of the Italian photographer forcing himself on the beautiful Marina.  As for the music, it's incredible. The opening theme has a pulsing, percussive rhythm and is repeated several times during the film.  I'm not sure there is enough here to make an album, although that could have been said about Sex Power, where we don't hear tracks in their entirety in the film.  This was recorded during that time when Vangelis was finished with Aphrodite's Child but not yet established in the UK with his RCA contract.  The music reflects the period. The Official DVD-R is available through the French website ina.fr.  Go to their boutique, do a search for it and you will surely find it!

DVD

red = I don't have it...wanna sell it? Write to me!

Pic?	Country	Label	Catalog No.	Notes
	France	ina.fr	none	PAL, 85 minutes, mono, 4:3

Best viewed with Internet Explorer, 800x600 resolution Vangelis Collector © 2011  Contact Uncle Don