Notes: | Aspect ratio 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen. Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1. Original score, Van Dyke Parks ; costumes, Susan Kaufmann ; production design, Gary Baugh ; editing, Geraldine Peroni ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; executive producers, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, John Wells, Roland Pellegrino, Dieter Meyer ; story, Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner ; screenplay, Barbara Turner. Artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Gerald Arpino. Credits for dance excerpts: Tensile involvement [seen under opening credits] / chor., mus., sets, cos., lighting, Alwin Nikolais -- Light rain / chor., Gerald Arpino; mus., Doug Adams and Russ Gauthier; cos., A. Christina Giannini; lighting, Kevin Dreyer after Thomas Skelton -- Suite Saint-Saëns / chor., Arpino; mus., Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. by Elliot Kaplan; cos., Giannini; lighting, Dreyer after Skelton -- My funny Valentine / chor., Lar Lubovitch; mus., Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, arr. by Marvin Laird; lighting, Dreyer -- Trinity / chor., Arpino; mus., Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge; lighting, Dreyer -- Creative force / chor., Laura Dean; mus., John Zeretzke; cos., Dean and Rebecca Strouse; lighting, Dreyer -- La vivandière pas de six / chor., Arthur Saint-Léon, transcribed by Ann Hutchinson Guest; mus., Cesare Pugni and Jean-Baptiste Nadaud; lighting, Dreyer -- Strange prisoners / chor., Davis Robertson; mus., Mark O'Connor and J.S. Bach; set, Keith Prisco; cos., Strouse; lighting, Dreyer and Prisco -- White widow / chor., Moses Pendleton and Cynthia Quinn of Momix; mus., Angelo Badalamenti and David K. Lynch; cos., Quinn; lighting, Dreyer -- The blue snake / chor., Robert Desrosiers; mus., Van Dyke Parks; sets and cos., Jerrard Smith; lighting, Dreyer. Neve Campell (Ry); Malcolm McDowell (Alberto Antonelli); James Franco (Josh); Barbara Robertson (Harriet); William Dick (Edouard); Susie Cusack (Susie); Marilyn Dodds Frank (Ry's mother); John Lordan (Ry's father); Mariann Mayberry (stepmother); Roderick Peeples (stepfather); Yasen Peyankov (Justin's mentor); the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago: Davis C. Robertson (Alec); Deborah Dawn (Deborah); John Gluckman (John); David Gombert (Justin); Suzanne L. Prisco (Suzanne); Emily Patterson (Noel); Maia Wilkins (Maia); Sam Franke (Franklin); Trinity Hamilton (Trinity); Julianne Kepley (Julianne); Valerie Robin (Veronica); Deanne Brown (Dana); Michael Smith (Michael); Matthew Roy Prescott (Colton); Lar Lubovitch and Robert Desrosiers (the choreographers); Charthel Arthur and Cameron Basden (the ballet mistresses); Mark Goldweber, Pierre Lockett, Adam Sklute (the ballet masters); Paul Lewis (company pianist); Larry Glazer (Grant Park cellist); Mark Hummel (Grant Park pianist); others. Original score performed by the Kronos Quartet: David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), Jennifer Culp (cello), with Michael Burr (bass). Filmed on location in Chicago. DVD. Optional subtitles in French.
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