The Violin

DVD Features

Bonus short: Un bisou pour le monde, directed by Cyril Paris

Sound: Stereo 2.0

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "One of the most amazing Mexican films in many a year...The Violin is filmmaking in its purest form. The debut film by Francisco Vargas moves us with its lyricism and shakes us with its honesty. A film that's moving, urgent and necessary."
  Guillermo del Toro, Director of Pan's Labyrinth
• Highest Rating
  "A message this political has rarely been delivered in so poetic a form."
  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
• Highest Rating
  "A terrific debut by Vargas, who wrote, directed and produced."
  Anthony Quinn, Independent (UK)
• Highest Rating
  "The Violin is so beautiful to look at, it almost wouldn't matter if it had a story. But it has one, and it's riveting."
  Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Highest Rating
  "The tiny, tough, sneakily moving film The Violin wears its revolutionary romanticism on its sleeve, not far from its gun."
  Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
• Highest Rating
  "A movie of undeniable gravitas and monumentality...."
  J. Hoberman, Village Voice
• Highest Rating
  "Once the political lines are drawn, Vargas' film becomes richly layered, and builds with greater and greater tension toward its harrowing, inevitable finale."
  Katey Rich, Film Journal International