Valentino

1977

Action / Biography / Drama

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2595 2.6K

lover heart-throb biography historical figure fame hollywood

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Plot summary

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Director

Ken Russell Photo
Ken Russell

Top cast

Mildred Shay Photo
Mildred Shay as Lady at Maxim's
Burnell Tucker Photo
Burnell Tucker as Assistant Director
John Ratzenberger Photo
John Ratzenberger as Newshound
Anton Diffring Photo
Anton Diffring as Baron Long
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
955.96 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 4
1.96 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

I think Ken Russell was a bit too

I think Ken Russell was a bit too hard on himself here. It's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination but it does lose steam by the last hour and ends abruptly. I have a feeling that Russell's frustration (besides the money and hollywood's expectations) with this one was in part because he was remaking Citizen Kane about celebrated classic Rudolph Valentino and .... I mean those are two extremely high bars. And he definitely doesn't come close to either, unfortunately. But so what. Valentino strongly succeeds in its casting. Rudolf Nureyev is really perfectly cast as Rudolph. What he lacks in subtleties of acting he makes up in beautiful and nuanced movement - the naked sheik scenes are so beautifully orchestrated, a shifting tableau of beauty that hammers home the (well deserved) sex-symbol message in the most in-your-face but chaste way. Then there's all of the women - Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Felicity Kendal, even Carol Kane - who all hit it out of the park and leave deep impressions of who they were and how they figured into his life. A feat thats certainly impressive when it's happening in somebody else's biopic - usually all of the side characters feel more like cameos than living and breathing figureheads in the person's life. The movie lacks in its pacing. It gets lost in Natacha Rambova for a little too long, and it lingers too long in the boxing ring. But there's still burning moments of Ken Russell Brilliance(TM) - including the flower veil at the funeral, the sheik moments, the powder puff singers, ballroom dancers around the boxing ring and the hordes of women scenes. A lesser Ken Russell for sure, but that's still high praise in my opinion.
Reviewed by delysid d 6 / 10

Odd story about an odd dancer

odd story about an odd dancer
Reviewed by Eric P 1 / 10

Watching Valentino, it feels like Ken Russell (writer

Watching Valentino, it feels like Ken Russell (writer and director of the film) hate Rudolph Valentino. In Ken Russell's insufferable pseudo-biography of Valentino, Rudolph Valentino was an insecure man trying to impress everyone how masculine he was yet he was unfortunate from the very start. Valentino is an exploitative, offensive, surpassingly boring, and most importantly dehumanizing. The songs were tasteless, the acting from Rudolf Nureyev and Leslie Caron were hammy, the direction from Ken Russell was pathetic, and it was also inaccurate. A truly dreadful film. Zero out of five stars.
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