Revolution (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland
Synopsis:
A farmer and a whore get caught up in the War of Independence.
Review:
Woefully dull and compromised attempt to combine the qualities of Culloden with Gone with the Wind: the documentary effects - grainy cinematography, a general emphasis on filth - are negated by the banality of the dramatics, weakened by embarrassing miscasting and disastrous underwriting. As a result the characters are mere cyphers, vehicles for glib socio-historical messaging. Other idiosyncratic casting decisions dog the enterprise, and 18th century New York persists in resembling nothing more remote than 20th century King's Lynn in the rain. The film was Goldcrest's own Heaven's Gate.
Country: US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland
Synopsis:
A farmer and a whore get caught up in the War of Independence.
Review:
Woefully dull and compromised attempt to combine the qualities of Culloden with Gone with the Wind: the documentary effects - grainy cinematography, a general emphasis on filth - are negated by the banality of the dramatics, weakened by embarrassing miscasting and disastrous underwriting. As a result the characters are mere cyphers, vehicles for glib socio-historical messaging. Other idiosyncratic casting decisions dog the enterprise, and 18th century New York persists in resembling nothing more remote than 20th century King's Lynn in the rain. The film was Goldcrest's own Heaven's Gate.
Country: US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland
Synopsis:
A farmer and a whore get caught up in the War of Independence.
Review:
Woefully dull and compromised attempt to combine the qualities of Culloden with Gone with the Wind: the documentary effects - grainy cinematography, a general emphasis on filth - are negated by the banality of the dramatics, weakened by embarrassing miscasting and disastrous underwriting. As a result the characters are mere cyphers, vehicles for glib socio-historical messaging. Other idiosyncratic casting decisions dog the enterprise, and 18th century New York persists in resembling nothing more remote than 20th century King's Lynn in the rain. The film was Goldcrest's own Heaven's Gate.