Tristan & Isolde Movie Review 2006

Pretty actors play tragic lovers in a romantic drama based on a Celtic legend. Dark Ages Irish princess Isolde (Myles) is the marriageable bargaining chip for her scheming father (O'Hara), whose aim is to rule the squabbling English tribes. Isolde rescues, and falls in love with, injured warrior Tristan (Franco), who happens to be the champion of powerful Briton Lord Marke (Sewell). Unbeknownst to the lovers, Isolde has been promised to Marke; they try to do the right thing. It's appropriately swoony and teary and noble.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 125 minutes.
Originally from British, German, United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Period Piece, Great Britain, Medieval Romps, Folklore & Legends, Royalty, British, War, General, Sword & Sandal, Marriage, Adultery

Screenplay

Dean Georgaris

Cast

James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, David Patrick O'Hara, Mark Strong, Henry Cavill, Bronagh Gallagher, Ronan Vibert, Lucy Russell, Thomas Sangster, JB Blanc, Graham Mulins

Cinematography

Arthur Reinhart

Director

Kevin Reynolds

Music

Anne Dudley

Other

Reinhard Stergar, Peter Boyle, Johnny Byrne, Maurizio Millenotti, Mark Geraghty

Producer

Lisa Ellzey, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha, Giannina Facio, Scott Free, ApolloProMedia, QI Quality Intl., MFF, Stillking, 20th Century-Fox