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• Emil K

  
  Francis Ford Coppola's neon lit musical is a blast of nostalgia and haunting love story set in middle of magical looking Las Vegas. One From the Heart is one of the greatest musicals i've witnessed in my whole life. It has that certain film magic that is to be found in very… More
  Francis Ford Coppola's neon lit musical is a blast of nostalgia and haunting love story set in middle of magical looking Las Vegas. One From the Heart is one of the greatest musicals i've witnessed in my whole life. It has that certain film magic that is to be found in very few of films. Story of Hank and Franny and their troubled relationship is one of the most heartbreaking lovestories ever told on celluloid. It may not be the most coherent or well paced film, but in Coppola's filmography it is one of his very best. With photography by great Vittorio Storaro and Ronald V. Garcia, Coppola has created a glorious looking film built completely in the massive Zoetrope studios. Film also has majestic and innovative production design by legendary Dean Tavoularis who did his career best work in this particular film. Coppola has always been experimental and fearless director who is not afraid of taking risks. One From the Heart might be one of his biggest risks in his entire career. It certainly creates a universe and atmosphere that no other film has ever created. This film is like a distant memory of your greatest love or like your favourite vinyl from the past. It has that certain melancholic feel in it. It has the enchanting feel of city that never sleeps. Maybe this film was made purely for romantics like Coppola himself. This is clearly a film made by person with a huge heart and understanding of love. Frederic Forrest is excellent as a Hank who is a tough guy from the outside but who is yearning for love inside. His performance has echoes of Marlon Brando's fantastic work in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. Teri Garr might seem very one dimensional character at first but is actually much more complex than the first half of this film shows you. There are also brilliant supporting roles by seductive Nastassja Kinski as an traveling circus artist and Raul Julia in charming role as a pianist. One From the Heart is one of those films which has power to go deep within soul and stay there. It has one of the greatest soundtracks written for any film by Tom Waits, It has dazzling musical numbers, dreamy atmosphere with shades of film noir and moments of pure magic in it. There are so many elements which i love here and yet it does fully succeed to be the masterpiece it almost is. Francis Ford Coppola is and will always be one of the most interesting American directors in the history of cinema. He is up there among the rest of the American masters like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Brian De Palma and Steven Spielberg. Maybe someday this underappreciated film will find it's audience. It certainly deserves more recognition than it has got since it's release back in 80's. My kind advice for you is that you go out there and seek out this forgotten gem.

• Ken S

  
  Gorgeous to look at, but kind of slow, but the cinematography is stunning, but it's fairly uneven, but that uneven-ness is photographed by Vittorio Storaro. I would also like to note that it's a crime that so much of Stararo's work isn't avaliable on blu-ray.

• AJ V

  
  I liked this movie for the most part, the story, sets, and songs go well together, but it could have been better.

• Drew S

  
  One From the Heart is really only recognized as a box office torpedo anymore, which is sort of a shame. It has a bevy of flaws, and its status as an obvious vanity project will turn off most viewers (especially those coming into the movie off of the high of Coppola's previous… More
  One From the Heart is really only recognized as a box office torpedo anymore, which is sort of a shame. It has a bevy of flaws, and its status as an obvious vanity project will turn off most viewers (especially those coming into the movie off of the high of Coppola's previous movie, Apocalypse Now). I found most of it unconventional and sweet, and the soundtrack is just fantastic - it has turned me into a Tom Waits fan. The plainness of the two leads is sort of difficult to get behind, but they have to be ordinary in contrast with the extraordinary people they meet up with later, and thus to convince us that they belong together. The bombing of this film confuses me in a sense, as Frannie and Hank make for successful audience avatars. You could blame it on the lack of market value of Frederic Forrest and Teri Garr, both of whom give strong performances here. They aren't completely depthless or without personality, but their struggles and lives are immediately relatable; they feel more like friends or acquaintances than surrogates or metaphors. One From the Heart falters in its excess, such as a scary propensity toward slapstick comedy that is every bit as bad as it sounds. Forrest + Bugs Bunny = the stuff of my nightmares. The film also has a tendency to let its characters shriek unbearably about whatever's troubling them, which grows obnoxious after a while. The first half an hour of the movie is sort of an endurance test, when their relationship is at its rockiest. If you can't stomach these people in this passage of the film, you should really just stop watching. Furthermore, the visual approach is distracting and, though unique, doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose in the film's goals at large. Bathing the shot in overcontrasted red or blue or yellow looks cool the first couple of times, but then you start to wonder what it's all for. Despite all that excess, One From the Heart sort of registers as a trifle, which is the last think Coppola wanted it to be I think. With its comparatively high budget, histrionic composition and the overall challenge that appreciating the film seems to bring, something about it doesn't really feel consistent. Perhaps musical romantic comedy is just a genre in which I'm not versed, but I didn't find it to be an exceptional movie, even though I appreciated and sympathized with it. This will assuredly be remembered as the point of Francis Ford Coppola's burnout, an unfair role for it to assume in history. I do recommend it, but only as a strange pit stop into some of the murkier depths of his filmography.

• Burger S

  
  Well, there is brief nudity from Teri Garr, but otherwise you can see why this movie flopped and ruined Francis financially. It is always good to see Raul Julia though.

• Alec B

  
  The film that ruined Francis Ford Coppola. I know it gets a lot of shit, but I rather enjoyed it. The sets, the lighting, and the music creates am eerie, dreamlike quality that allows the story to transcend the real world. Not all of the film works, but Coppola was really trying… More
  The film that ruined Francis Ford Coppola. I know it gets a lot of shit, but I rather enjoyed it. The sets, the lighting, and the music creates am eerie, dreamlike quality that allows the story to transcend the real world. Not all of the film works, but Coppola was really trying something different here and I really like that. In my opinion he mostly succeeded. The best thing is that Tom Waits score with some wonderful sad songs.

• Marion R

  
  I felt the music took me out of the story, it was too distracting. An interesting, surrealistic feeling and background were the best thing about the film.

• Donna D

  
  Oh...this one I loved from Frances Ford Coppola so long ago in 1982. The movie was awesome, but I need to rewatch it again to review it accurately. But it was a great movie. :)

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