Product Description

After more than a decade of false starts and several potential directors, the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical finally made it to the big screen with Alan Parker () at the helm and Madonna in the coveted title role of Argentina's first lady, Eva Pern. A triumph of production design, costuming, cinematography, and epic-scale pageantry, the film follows the rise of Eva Pern to the level of supreme social and political celebrity in the 1940s. Like Madonna, Pern was a material girl (she was only 33 when she died); she was instrumental in the political success of her husband, Juan Pern (Jonathan Pryce). But Eva was also a supremely tragic figure whose life was essentially hollow at its core despite the lavish benefits of her nearly goddess-like status. The film has a similar quality--it's visually astonishing but emotionally distant, and benefits greatly from the singing commentary of Ch (Antonia Banderas), who serves as a passionate chorus to guide the viewer through the elaborate parade of history.