Easy Virtue (2008)
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth
Synopsis:
An American woman of a certain age with a scandal in her closet attaches herself to the son and heir of a failing estate in the Home Counties during the 1920s. She meets with a mixed reception.
Review:
Coward's comedy is translated somewhat awkwardly to the screen, with post-modern trimmings to the fore - a soundtrack of anachronistic musical numbers set to jazz, one or two knowing lines, an omission of propriety surely rare among landed gentry of the time - and a lead who is perhaps a mite young for the role. The plausibility of the newly weds' visit being stretched out to a matter of months in spite of the bride's reluctance becomes an increasingly hard pill to swallow but for most of the time we are having too much fun to care. The second generation cast members have by far the most fun with their roles and there were far worse ways of spending an hour and a half in a cinema in 2008.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth
Synopsis:
An American woman of a certain age with a scandal in her closet attaches herself to the son and heir of a failing estate in the Home Counties during the 1920s. She meets with a mixed reception.
Review:
Coward's comedy is translated somewhat awkwardly to the screen, with post-modern trimmings to the fore - a soundtrack of anachronistic musical numbers set to jazz, one or two knowing lines, an omission of propriety surely rare among landed gentry of the time - and a lead who is perhaps a mite young for the role. The plausibility of the newly weds' visit being stretched out to a matter of months in spite of the bride's reluctance becomes an increasingly hard pill to swallow but for most of the time we are having too much fun to care. The second generation cast members have by far the most fun with their roles and there were far worse ways of spending an hour and a half in a cinema in 2008.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth
Synopsis:
An American woman of a certain age with a scandal in her closet attaches herself to the son and heir of a failing estate in the Home Counties during the 1920s. She meets with a mixed reception.
Review:
Coward's comedy is translated somewhat awkwardly to the screen, with post-modern trimmings to the fore - a soundtrack of anachronistic musical numbers set to jazz, one or two knowing lines, an omission of propriety surely rare among landed gentry of the time - and a lead who is perhaps a mite young for the role. The plausibility of the newly weds' visit being stretched out to a matter of months in spite of the bride's reluctance becomes an increasingly hard pill to swallow but for most of the time we are having too much fun to care. The second generation cast members have by far the most fun with their roles and there were far worse ways of spending an hour and a half in a cinema in 2008.