The BFG (2016)
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall
Synopsis:
A young girl in an orphanage is abducted by a giant who collects dreams and distributes them to the citizens as they slumber. Unfortunately he is the runt of a litter of more fearsome giants, who like nothing better than munching on 'human beans'.
Review:
Spielberg's take on Roald Dahl is partly an excuse to work with Rylance again after Bridge of Spies, and the actor certainly leaves you with the certainty that no one else could embody the role, but the film is also mercifully free of the kind of excess in US film making for which the director is largely responsible in establishing. It is gently paced, sensitively scored and preserves intact the manifold British virtues of the original.
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall
Synopsis:
A young girl in an orphanage is abducted by a giant who collects dreams and distributes them to the citizens as they slumber. Unfortunately he is the runt of a litter of more fearsome giants, who like nothing better than munching on 'human beans'.
Review:
Spielberg's take on Roald Dahl is partly an excuse to work with Rylance again after Bridge of Spies, and the actor certainly leaves you with the certainty that no one else could embody the role, but the film is also mercifully free of the kind of excess in US film making for which the director is largely responsible in establishing. It is gently paced, sensitively scored and preserves intact the manifold British virtues of the original.
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall
Synopsis:
A young girl in an orphanage is abducted by a giant who collects dreams and distributes them to the citizens as they slumber. Unfortunately he is the runt of a litter of more fearsome giants, who like nothing better than munching on 'human beans'.
Review:
Spielberg's take on Roald Dahl is partly an excuse to work with Rylance again after Bridge of Spies, and the actor certainly leaves you with the certainty that no one else could embody the role, but the film is also mercifully free of the kind of excess in US film making for which the director is largely responsible in establishing. It is gently paced, sensitively scored and preserves intact the manifold British virtues of the original.