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Play (2000)

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User Rating: 8.2/10 (216 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Anthony Minghella
Writer:
Samuel Beckett (play)
Release Date:
14 July 2001 (Finland) more
Genre:
Drama | Short | Fantasy more
Plot Keywords:
Based On Play
User Comments:
Compellingly focused Beckett on Film. more

Cast

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Alan Rickman ... Man

Kristin Scott Thomas ... First Woman

Juliet Stevenson ... Second Woman
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:16 min
Country:
Ireland
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Compellingly focused Beckett on Film., 2 June 2003
9/10
Author: Tom May (joycean_chap@hotmail.com) from Sunderland, England

This adaptation is one of the most impressive of the often variable series of Beckett on Film productions. Anthony Minghella - I must admit I have not seen his well known films - is spot-on with an interesting interpretation; replacing the quick-fire spotlighting of a dark stage with subtly worked angles, and largely close ups of the three main actors.

Juliet Stevenson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Alan Rickman are magnificent; what a task it must have been to have learned all those rapid-fire lines. The camera itself is a player, with its buzzing, denoting fore-grounding and focus on characters. A brilliant editing job is achieved; the play's cyclic repetition is negotiating excellently. This is a very inscrutable text at first viewing, but considering the same material is repeated, many of the verbal tricks become clearer. A convoluted narrative, made up of three different perspectives; always, the language is masterful in its precision.

A fine adaptation; perfectly captures the material of a sometimes-overlooked play: one of Beckett's shorter and less lauded works, but one every bit as deadening and obliquely shattering in its impact as the others.

Rating:- **** 1/2/*****

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