(The Weinstein Company)
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: A-
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written By: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Sophia Loren
Screened at: Lighthouse International, NYC, 12/4/09
Opens: December 18, 2009
Calderon de la barca, the 17th Century Spanish playwright wrote .La Vida es Sueno. (.Life is a Dream.), describing a man, Segismundo, the putative heir to the king of Poland, who commits two violent acts. When he is drugged and returned to prison, he is told that the vicious events are nothing but his dream. The key person in, Federico Fellini.s classic film .8-1/2,. made in 1982 into the Broadway musical .Nine. and now adapted by Rob Marshall for the big screen, evokes an alternate vision. Dreams, at nighttime but especially during the day (like when you sit through a two-hour lecture on medieval...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: A-
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Written By: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson, Sophia Loren
Screened at: Lighthouse International, NYC, 12/4/09
Opens: December 18, 2009
Calderon de la barca, the 17th Century Spanish playwright wrote .La Vida es Sueno. (.Life is a Dream.), describing a man, Segismundo, the putative heir to the king of Poland, who commits two violent acts. When he is drugged and returned to prison, he is told that the vicious events are nothing but his dream. The key person in, Federico Fellini.s classic film .8-1/2,. made in 1982 into the Broadway musical .Nine. and now adapted by Rob Marshall for the big screen, evokes an alternate vision. Dreams, at nighttime but especially during the day (like when you sit through a two-hour lecture on medieval...
- 12/7/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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