Dante: The Divine Comedy

Released in 2002 DVD edition released in 2006

The documentary is worth watching for the pictures, and some, keeping the storyline in order. However, I think it was an accident as they had no plan when they made this documentary on how to make a documentary. If Dante had not been meticulous in his order of things, this presentation would have been complete chaos.

We have several people that never talked to each other with completely different concepts of Dante. This would not be so bad in itself, but the thread keeps jumping from one quasi-authority to another. Most of the time, they were talking about separate levels of heaven and hell, so you went up and down like a yo-yo. My favorite part is when one authority said that Dante never went to university, and the next interviewed authority showed the university that his father paid his way through.

The culprits - Professor Zygmont, Dr. Catherine Keen of St John's College, Cambridge, Dr. Simon Gilson of Warwick University, Dr. Robin Kirkpatrick of Robinson College, Cambridge, plus author and leading Dante authority Dr. Anna Lawrence.

A summary was written by G. Forman.

The English subtitles said Cambridge not Cambridge. I can't spell, but then again, I am not writing subtitles.