Andrea Bocelli - Tuscan Skies
Andrea Bocelli - Tuscan Skies
| 15 January 2002 (USA)
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This program presents Bocelli's childhood memories and present day life expressed with realistic video clips. Includes stylized home movie sequences shot with Super 8 stock, vignettes of Andrea shot present day, at home with his young sons, and Bocelli's instrumental music with sweeping aerial shots of the rich tapestry of the Tuscan landcape. Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli is one of the music world's biggest crossover successes, having brought his classical vocals to the realm of mainstream popularity. The Tuscan vocalist is explored as both a person and an artist in TUSCAN SKIES, which intersperses clips of his everyday life and recreations of his childhood memories with music videos. Clips of his daily home life which feature Bocelli with his adorable sons, are filmed in grainy black and white, while the lush Tuscan landscape is filmed in spectacular color.

Reviews
Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
TheLittleSongbird I like Andrea Bocelli, I find him passionate and moving and I think he has a beautiful, distinctive tone to his voice. Having loved his other DVDs especially A Night in Tuscany(to me one of the most memorable concert DVDs I've seen), perhaps my expectations were a little too high, I was a little disappointed with Tuscan Skies. Nothing about it is bad, just that I liked his other DVDs better. The music is wonderful, with the standouts being L'Abitudine and E Sara' A Settembre, Bocelli sings absolutely beautifully throughout as do the likes of Helena Hellwig, I loved the footage of Bocelli getting ready for each performance, they were interesting and showed that he was as much of a pleasure to speak to as well as to listen to and the sceneries and images are spectacular. However, I do agree about the sound, the music and singing are appropriately vivid but marred by background noises such as the horses neighing, inevitable perhaps but distracting. Another problem was that here I didn't get much of an emotional connection in the way I did watching Night in Tuscany for example, the structure of the DVD and images read more of a slide-show which while the images were wonderful to watch detracted from the emotional impact it could have had. Also, while not as problematic, there are a couple of images showing human relationship that seemed as though they were trying too hard to give any sort of emotional depth. This was especially true of the male model holding the baby. All in all, pleasant enough but not quite on par with Bocelli's other DVDs. Worth watching for the music, sceneries and Bocelli's voice, but anyone looking for a genuine sense of atmosphere and emotional connection may find themselves underwhelmed. 7/10 Bethany Cox
ccthemovieman-1 The popular opera-pop singer gives tribute to his home town and his family in a series of videos accompanied by almost a dozen songs. This is pretty short at 53 minutes and I found it not up to the standards of his concert programs. However, all the songs are nice, mellow and well-sung, as usual. But, to me, some of the songs are marred by sounds from the accompanying video, such as horses making noises, people talking. This goes on during the middle of some songs and is too distracting. I want to hear Bocelli's voice - period, not horses whinnying at the same time!There are some nice shots of the Italian scenery All in all, decent but nothing spectacular and below-par as far as a Bocelli offering.