![]() ![]() Highly recommended for conoisseurs of fine acting in the classic sense. ![]() Thus the effect is dramaturgical rather than cinematographic, a little like Branaghan doing his versions of Shakespeare. I blow the dust off my 1973 Penguin copy of the play, and can follow some of the scenes almost verbatim. Arthur Miller himself collaborated on the script, allowing certain poetic licence in modernising some of the speech forms, which, in the original play written around 1952-1953 reflected speech patterns of the times. ![]() Convincing scene-setting in Massachussets at the end of the 17th Century with heavy wood-framed farm buildings and typical North European immigrant peasants' clothing, all beautifully filmed. Nicholas Hytner certainly earnt his wages and all the cast should have received a good pay-rise. This is the second time I have been able to see this worthy conversion of Arthur Miller's classic play adapted to the screen. So, 6.There is nothing I like better than a good play for the stage, even when it is on screen. I want to repeat that the whole thing is worth it just to have a glimpse of Sophia Loren singing. I was reminded she was a sublime Sally Bowles in the first London production of "Cabaret" - Daniel Day Lewis has been one of my favourites for a long time now but here he is far too pale, inside and out. Nicole Kidman is starting to look like a wax work, what a pity! And Judi Dench is always fun. Penelope Cruz dances an erotic dance and Kate Hudson, well I don't quite know what she was doing. The look of it is great, and Marion Cotillard makes something enormous from the little she was given. Here the score is iffy and scarce and the story, translated into musical numbers is kind of shallow and, quite honestly, not enough. I knew I had to forget this was a musical adaptation of 81/2, but I couldn't forget the way I forgot that "Sweet Charity" was a musical remake of "The Nights Of Cabiria". Let me say off the bat that seeing Sophia Loren and Sophia Loren singing gave me a chill. ![]()
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