The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Country: GB/CZ/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Monica Bellucci
Synopsis:
Before they become celebrated collectors of tales, the brothers are bogus exorcists scoring a living in a Napoleonically ravaged Germany. Until, that is, they fall foul of a sadistic French officer tired of being blamed for the disappearance of children who are in fact going astray in a mysteriously bewitched wood. The brothers must defeat the wood and restore the children.
Review:
Gilliam's as usual impeccably visualised production is dragged down to earth by miscast leads, muttered dialogue and the kind of archly anachronistic jokeyness Time Bandits fell in for at times. The observant will pick up shreds of a half dozen or so Grimm tales-to-be peppered through the narrative, but will wonder at the incongruous overacting of Peter Stormare as an Italian rogue.
Country: GB/CZ/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Monica Bellucci
Synopsis:
Before they become celebrated collectors of tales, the brothers are bogus exorcists scoring a living in a Napoleonically ravaged Germany. Until, that is, they fall foul of a sadistic French officer tired of being blamed for the disappearance of children who are in fact going astray in a mysteriously bewitched wood. The brothers must defeat the wood and restore the children.
Review:
Gilliam's as usual impeccably visualised production is dragged down to earth by miscast leads, muttered dialogue and the kind of archly anachronistic jokeyness Time Bandits fell in for at times. The observant will pick up shreds of a half dozen or so Grimm tales-to-be peppered through the narrative, but will wonder at the incongruous overacting of Peter Stormare as an Italian rogue.
Country: GB/CZ/US
Technical: col 118m
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Monica Bellucci
Synopsis:
Before they become celebrated collectors of tales, the brothers are bogus exorcists scoring a living in a Napoleonically ravaged Germany. Until, that is, they fall foul of a sadistic French officer tired of being blamed for the disappearance of children who are in fact going astray in a mysteriously bewitched wood. The brothers must defeat the wood and restore the children.
Review:
Gilliam's as usual impeccably visualised production is dragged down to earth by miscast leads, muttered dialogue and the kind of archly anachronistic jokeyness Time Bandits fell in for at times. The observant will pick up shreds of a half dozen or so Grimm tales-to-be peppered through the narrative, but will wonder at the incongruous overacting of Peter Stormare as an Italian rogue.