Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A modest Hertfordshire landowner with five daughters is less preoccupied than his wife with the task of marrying them off, but the interest of a clergyman cousin in line to inherit the property before any of them precipitates an increased flapping of maternal wings of which even he must take notice. His interest, and ours, centres on the spirited second daughter, Elizabeth, who is firmly dismissive of Mr Collins but somewhat more confused in her response to a certain Mr Darcy.
Review:
Yet another film treatment of Austen's classic sentimental novel. It justifies the addition in as much as it is scrupulously faithful to both the dialogue of the book and the physicalities of contemporary life, while contributing a more modern expansiveness in the emotional scenes and a Darcy who is as clearly vulnerable as he is insensitive. He is not quite matched by an Elizabeth who is suitably spirited, and ravishing in some shots, but whose rictus grin can be an irritation. The producers throw on every romantic trapping imaginable, somewhat anachronistically, from bucolic, ornamental or rugged landscapes to Beethovenian piano playing, from close-ups of painting and sculpture as sublimators of human passions to loose clothing and thunderstorms. There is also some beautifully fluent filmmaking, with a number of sequences of minutely choreographed single takedom which teeters on the brink of empty display. Above all the close-ups of the fine leading performers (and a superb Tom Hollander) capture the intimacy of this emotional text and soften the hardest heart.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A modest Hertfordshire landowner with five daughters is less preoccupied than his wife with the task of marrying them off, but the interest of a clergyman cousin in line to inherit the property before any of them precipitates an increased flapping of maternal wings of which even he must take notice. His interest, and ours, centres on the spirited second daughter, Elizabeth, who is firmly dismissive of Mr Collins but somewhat more confused in her response to a certain Mr Darcy.
Review:
Yet another film treatment of Austen's classic sentimental novel. It justifies the addition in as much as it is scrupulously faithful to both the dialogue of the book and the physicalities of contemporary life, while contributing a more modern expansiveness in the emotional scenes and a Darcy who is as clearly vulnerable as he is insensitive. He is not quite matched by an Elizabeth who is suitably spirited, and ravishing in some shots, but whose rictus grin can be an irritation. The producers throw on every romantic trapping imaginable, somewhat anachronistically, from bucolic, ornamental or rugged landscapes to Beethovenian piano playing, from close-ups of painting and sculpture as sublimators of human passions to loose clothing and thunderstorms. There is also some beautifully fluent filmmaking, with a number of sequences of minutely choreographed single takedom which teeters on the brink of empty display. Above all the close-ups of the fine leading performers (and a superb Tom Hollander) capture the intimacy of this emotional text and soften the hardest heart.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A modest Hertfordshire landowner with five daughters is less preoccupied than his wife with the task of marrying them off, but the interest of a clergyman cousin in line to inherit the property before any of them precipitates an increased flapping of maternal wings of which even he must take notice. His interest, and ours, centres on the spirited second daughter, Elizabeth, who is firmly dismissive of Mr Collins but somewhat more confused in her response to a certain Mr Darcy.
Review:
Yet another film treatment of Austen's classic sentimental novel. It justifies the addition in as much as it is scrupulously faithful to both the dialogue of the book and the physicalities of contemporary life, while contributing a more modern expansiveness in the emotional scenes and a Darcy who is as clearly vulnerable as he is insensitive. He is not quite matched by an Elizabeth who is suitably spirited, and ravishing in some shots, but whose rictus grin can be an irritation. The producers throw on every romantic trapping imaginable, somewhat anachronistically, from bucolic, ornamental or rugged landscapes to Beethovenian piano playing, from close-ups of painting and sculpture as sublimators of human passions to loose clothing and thunderstorms. There is also some beautifully fluent filmmaking, with a number of sequences of minutely choreographed single takedom which teeters on the brink of empty display. Above all the close-ups of the fine leading performers (and a superb Tom Hollander) capture the intimacy of this emotional text and soften the hardest heart.