The Color Purple (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col 152m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery
Synopsis:
A young black woman brought up on a plantation survives a brutalised childhood and violent marriage to become a successful authoress.
Review:
Spielberg's attempt at something like Lean's Great Expectations, with its mastery of narrative ups and downs and dramatic transitions, this repackaging of a feminist novel into a feelgood drama irked the Alice Walker fans and was trounced at the Oscars by Out of Africa. True, in spite of the abject misery and crushing blows of the film's first two thirds one does not shed a tear until the emotionally overwrought happy ending; but director and star nevertheless produced a dynamically involving movie whose at times perhaps over-creative mise-en-scène does not swamp the thematic current of the original.
Country: US
Technical: col 152m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery
Synopsis:
A young black woman brought up on a plantation survives a brutalised childhood and violent marriage to become a successful authoress.
Review:
Spielberg's attempt at something like Lean's Great Expectations, with its mastery of narrative ups and downs and dramatic transitions, this repackaging of a feminist novel into a feelgood drama irked the Alice Walker fans and was trounced at the Oscars by Out of Africa. True, in spite of the abject misery and crushing blows of the film's first two thirds one does not shed a tear until the emotionally overwrought happy ending; but director and star nevertheless produced a dynamically involving movie whose at times perhaps over-creative mise-en-scène does not swamp the thematic current of the original.
Country: US
Technical: col 152m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery
Synopsis:
A young black woman brought up on a plantation survives a brutalised childhood and violent marriage to become a successful authoress.
Review:
Spielberg's attempt at something like Lean's Great Expectations, with its mastery of narrative ups and downs and dramatic transitions, this repackaging of a feminist novel into a feelgood drama irked the Alice Walker fans and was trounced at the Oscars by Out of Africa. True, in spite of the abject misery and crushing blows of the film's first two thirds one does not shed a tear until the emotionally overwrought happy ending; but director and star nevertheless produced a dynamically involving movie whose at times perhaps over-creative mise-en-scène does not swamp the thematic current of the original.