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Post by theatrelover123 on May 2, 2019 15:37:40 GMT
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Post by bordeaux on Jan 28, 2020 11:15:30 GMT
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Post by intoanewlife on Jan 28, 2020 11:16:02 GMT
Can't wait to see the film. Though the play absolutely devastated me. Frank Langella was absolutely brilliant in this.
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Post by Dr Tom on Jun 20, 2021 21:06:50 GMT
Just saw the film tonight and thought it was excellent. Very different to what I was expecting. I didn't get to see this in the theatre, but wish I had done now.
It held my attention all the way through and, despite most of the audience being unwilling to wear their masks (which was equally true when I walked through Westfield to get to the cinema), they were well behaved. Only one phone went off. Not too long either, only about 90 minutes (plus trailers).
It doesn't seem like this is being shown all that often, but well worth catching. Quite a masterclass in acting from everyone involved.
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Post by mkb on Jun 23, 2021 15:54:19 GMT
Maybe it was because I have seen the play and knew what to expect, but I didn't find the film anywhere near as disorientating. It actually felt quite ordered, and therefore didn't have the same impact. Couldn't fault the performances, but a five-star play has become a four-star film I feel.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 23, 2022 20:28:34 GMT
The film is on Netflix at the moment. I'm of the age where people I know well are developing / have died with dementia so I found it very depressing viewing, though I've never liked Hopkins much, so didn't really engage sympathetically with the father character in the way I feel I may have done more if it had been an actor I like. I see from reviews of the play there were parts that came across as funny onstage, but I didn't get that at all here: very downbeat. I also felt the setting was so luxuriously gorgeous and the characters' apparent lack of financial worries around care/help disconnected me somewhat too: with my own family and friends' illness, the deterioration of their physical surroundings was/is part and parcel of it and I didn't get that at all from this.
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