Interesteg What makes it different from others?

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

bsmith5552 "Ecstasy" has long been famous for scenes of the teen-aged Hedy Lamarr (as Hedy Keisler) scampering through the bushes sans clothes. Racy enough for the time, these scenes are comparably mild by today's standards.The film opens with newlyweds Eva (Lamarr) and Emile (Zvanimir Rogaz) crossing the thresh hold of their home. Emile is much older than Eva and is set in his ways to the point of falling asleep on their wedding night. Emile has little time for a passionate relationship. Eva over time, becomes increasingly frustrated with the situation and returns home to her father (Leopold Kramer).One day while riding in the countryside, Eva stops for a skinny dip leaving her robe upon her horse. The horse wanders away and Eva is left in the lurch as it were. A young construction worker Adam (Albert Mog) catches the horse and searches for its owner. Eva meanwhile has also been searching for the animal. Adam finds her cowering nude behind a bush. He chivalrously throws her her clothes. While fleeing the embarrassing situation Eva trips and injures her ankle. Adam goes after her and the two become attracted to each other.During the night, Eva becomes uncontrollably drawn to Adam's home and the two become lovers. It turns out that Eva's husband is Adam's boss and somehow, has learned of the affair. He takes Adam on a seemingly suicidal car ride which ends with the older man falling ill. Later Emile goes to Eva's father's home to plead with her to return to him. She refuses. Later, a tragic event occurs which greatly upsets Eva and...........................................................The celebrated nude scenes are shown mostly in long shots with only glimpses of Ms. Lamarr running between the bushes. The swimming scenes culminating with Hedy emerging from the water showing all, are similarly shown in grainy long shots. The shot of Eva experiencing passion or if you will, ecstasy is well done but suffers from the grainy print from which the DVD was struck. Apparently Ms. Lamarr's husband of the day (she was married 6 times), tried to buy up existing prints of the film but failed.

Charlot47 Reviewers have struggled with the lack of dialogue and the lavish use of symbolism, both of which force you to interpret the film as a visual experience. Most seem baffled, embarrassed or bored by the long wordless finale. Consider what has happened to the principals: the husband Emil, after failing to drive into a train on a level crossing, has shot himself; the divorced wife Eva, after failing to throw herself under a train like Anna Karenina, has disappeared; but her lover, the surveyor Adam, still has his road to build. So it's back to the job for him and his team, stripped to the waist under the summer sun. We get a celebration of physical work in the open: breaking ground with picks and drills, moving spoil, sawing timber. Even the respectably covered gypsy woman with her children is chipping stone. After an introverted and tragic story of thwarted passion among the rich, here are ordinary people doing an honest day's labour.And the final shot of a happy and sexy Eva with a baby? If it's meant to be real, or just Adam's fantasy, we're left to guess. But isn't it a celebration of fulfilment and of new life?Also, isn't the end a reprise of the old story in the book of Genesis? After their disobedience, Adam and Eve are both cursed. He must toil at the ground to make his living and sweat before he can eat. She will suffer the pangs of childbirth, but will still want to be with her man.

whpratt1 This picture was banned from American movies houses in the 1930 because of nudity by Hedy Lamarr, (Eva Hermann) which caused all kinds of problems among the ladies in the 1930's but not so much for the male population. This story concerns a young woman named Eva Hermann who gets married to an older man and is carried over the threshold on the wedding night and the husband never consummates the marriage and worries about all kinds of very petty things like his shoes and killing bugs. Eva leaves her husband's house and lives with her father and tries to explain her situation. On a hot Summer day Eva takes a ride on her horse and decides to go for a swim naked in a lake in the woods. Her horse runs off and she runs after him and is observed by a young man who finds her clothes and returns them to Eva. These two people become very acquainted and there is a romance that starts to bloom. There are many more interesting problems that arise as you view this film to its very end. Enjoy a great Classic film which was a Shocker Film in 1933. Enjoy.

sue-379 I gather at least a few people watched it on Sept.2 on TCM. If you did you know that Hedy had to change her name to avoid being associated with this movie when she came the U.S. It was a huge scandal and I gather that the original release in the U.S. was so chopped up by censors that it was practically unintelligible. I watched because I had just seen a documentary on "bad women", actresses in the U.S. pre- movie censorship board set up in the early '30s. It looked to me as though they got away with a lot more than Hedy's most "sensational" shots in "Ecstasy". In fact Hedy looked positively innocent in this, by today's standards, and it was nice to see her early unspoiled beauty. It was a nice, lyrical movie to relax to. I loved it for what it was: a simple romance. I watched it after pre- recording it during a sleepless early A.M. I would love to see the first version released in the U.S. for comparison's sake.