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Director Starring |
Difficult film to comment on. I will say it took me about 20 minutes to get into, and that I got into it at all was probably dependent on my already knowing The Tempest well. But once I got into the groove, WHAT a sumptuous, absorbing thing this is… and really an excellent adaptation, true to all the dark, rotten, and lustful parts right there in Shakespeare’s words but rarely translated to visuals on stage. Greenaway’s sets are knockouts, even much more so than in CTWL, and his long pans across their broad tableaux are mindblowing. Add to that the peerless Sacha Vierny and Michael Nyman (who makes saxophones sound like instruments of torture), Gielgud and Josephson, and it’s absurd that his work isn’t better-known and -respected. Bizarre and completely amazing. |
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