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Re: Sight and Sound (2002) Greatest Films Club
#262 - Chimes at Midnight
I couldn't get into this much. Straight Shakespeare is really off-putting for me. I prefer a modern adaptation (for example, My Own Private Idaho, which served as a cultural reference point for me during certain scenes in this film). The language is fairly easy to digest when read off the page, but when it's being rushed out of the mouths of actors, many of whom have difficult accents, it makes it tough to figure out what's going on a lot of the time. Still, the actors did seem to be doing a good job of it -- at least most of them act as you would expect people to act, and not like they're showboating for an audience (I wish Jeanne Moreau had been used a bit more). And the photography was, as expected, astonishing. The battle scene in particular was magnificent. Still, I didn't get a lot out of it, and watching the movie was often quite a chore. I hate to give Welles such a meager score, but this one is more for the Shakespeare lovers out there. Rating: 6
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