Barney's Version (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Barney's Version film is one of the few to be a life-touching films and somewhat of a self-development film to young men through its devotion to pursuing the woman you hold close to heart. In addition, teaches men to treat the woman that you love dearly as your treasure. There were sad moments in the film that seem to teach more of a lesson on the woman you choose, the friends you allow into your home (giving the life-lesson that some would try fornication), and their was much to smile and laugh about in the film. I personally don't understand why this film wasn't as popular as it should have been. Honestly, I love this film, for its like a voice to men in a agape sense! Language was explicit as a demonstration to a life unfiltered (meaning their is filthy language that people like to construct). Paul Giamatti chose a great film to be the main actor and the acting was superb. I won't lie and say it was full of drama because certain parts of the film you'll laugh and certain parts you'll gain wisdom, and certain parts you'll feel sad and disappointed things turned out that way but in a mesmerizing type of sense. Personally thought his second wife was a decent wife (Minnie Driver) whom made efforts but her sexual drive became suppressed because of Barney not giving daily sex so she cheated. But the Third wife was a very good choice but Barney cheated because of sexual suppression when Miriam Grant-Panofsky (third wife) left on vocation with the company of their son and Blair (who was courting his wife in secret), there was Karma in this! But a great film, and inspirational.

Paul Giamatti goes a bit off the charts here, as does the controlling direction that I found a bit herky jerky. You want to like some of the characters, yet they may not be lovable. Dustin Hoffman steals his scenes...Giamatti could learn from him how to do so without making it so obvious that he's trying. I’m not sure Giamatti was the right guy to cast here, even though he picked up a Golden Globe. Regardless this is a heavy flick that balances like a coin on it’s side.

This is a movie about a man that as far as I can see it managed to blow through not one but three marriages. What Barney failed to realize is that his marriages largely failed because as marriage counselors will tell you he had contempt for his wives. An alcoholic who has an amazing ability to charm people, initially his wives and friends and then business people. And just when you want to start really disliking the guy he comes down with Alzheimer's and we feel sorry for him as his life winds down.

the movie itself is excellent, one of the top five movies of my life. It is the quality of this DVD that absolutely is horrible, it is worse than a bootleg--by the second time i played it, it was freezing for long periods in certain spots. I put it away for a few years after we moved, and just tried it again with a new DVD player--same problem,it plays like a bootleg copy with freezing, etc.The movie I would recommend to everyone--just do not buy from this seller, OK?

I am a Rosamund Pike junkie. Anything she does would suit me - just to look at her - not to mention her superior acting ability. But this is a very touching and poignant story. Paul Giamatti is the preeminent everyman. All of us can identify with him. How does everyman land beautiful wives like Minnie Driver and Rosamund Pike? Let's hope it's more than fantasy. But it is a wonderful ride through transcendent love and marriage and has a an all-important moral to the story.

There's an old axiom that seldom are individuals all good or all bad. But if people are generally a little of both, how do we know if they are one or the other? Mordecai Richler introduces us to a protagonist with a big heart as well as equally big warts and poses this question: Is he a good man or not? Though most people have good intentions, we don't live with people deep down in their souls where their good intentions lie. We live with them in the real world, with the choices they make, and the consequences of those choices--generally approaching another's character by way of his choices and actions. Barney's Version is, foremost, a beautiful piece of art but also a film that presents us with a dilemma to just that approach. In the first instance, it's a gorgeous film--visually sumptuous, luminous characters, rich in story and emotional authenticity, and laden with golden performances, especially from Giamatti, who's established himself as a dean of American performing arts. No explosions, no hardware, no ILM special effects--just a movie so sensuously textured you feel as though it reaches out from the screen and wraps you in a sheet of silk. In the second instance, we see people suffer the choices Barney Panofsky makes. But Barney is far too multi-dimensional for us, or the people in his life, to write off his moral character so easily. The elements of his story--the vicissitudes of an ordinary man's life; his delicate relationships with wife, father, and friends; his pleasures and pains; his desires and dreads--might have come to be seen as too ordinary, too unremarkable. The triumph of this film is that if deftly assembles all the components of remarkable cinema to compel us to see the extraordinary in an ordinary man's--even a flawed man's--life. And it is with this imperfect and complex individual that Richler and Konyves put forth their question and partially answer it. Sometimes--and it's not quite clear when--the character of someone with seemingly insurmountable personal defects can't be completely defined by the sum total of his bad choices. It's not a finite answer, and each viewer is left to reach his own conclusion. But in presenting us with that challenge and this wonder-filled story, Barney's Version is masterful and, like all great art, rises well above the question it originally poses.

Barney’s Version is an excellent film with exceptional performances by Paul Giamatti and cast, particularly Dustin Hoffman.It is a funny, witty, dramatic, and ultimately, charming story of a resilient man recounting his life story as he remembers it.The ending of the film portrays a realisation that we all live a life of joy and experience mistakes that can alter our lives forever.Especially when we sit back and think of what could have been.

I have watched in cinema and I loved it.

At turns amusing and poignant, this is a skillful adaptation of the novel which manages to portray the self-destructive and like-able character that is Barney.

Right up there with Sideways. Puerile, poignant, magnificent. Don't be put off by the sluggish start - give it time.

Great movie examining human motivations and failures.

Dont miss it !!!

Starting off with comedy during Barney's youth, it moves through his time back in Montreal as a young man through to his old age. Funny at times but moving too. A very good ensemble cast and his usual excellent performance from Paul Giamatti.

Excellent acting by a good cast. I love the wit, the cleverness of the discussion, of the situation. very well done - I laugh to the floor, but then cried discretely. Highly recommended !

Great film. Paul Giamatti brilliant.

Seen a few years ago at cinema. A moving story and great performances. Barney is a somewhat self-centred needy character

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Good.

great

Excellent, though had already seen it, and bought it as a present.

What a great movie story with powerful acting ,and is one of my top ten movies ,it highlighted the case of Alzheimer's disease