Funny Girl (1968)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 151m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
Synopsis:
Daffy Jewish girl rises up through vaudeville to appear as comic lead with the Ziegfeld Follies, but her success unbalances her marriage to a professional gambler.
Review:
The early career of Fanny Brice, with a shining new star perfectly embodying her confidence, determination and essential kookiness. Unfortunately, the production is somewhat staid and conventional where a contemporary style might have made more of her sauciness and Jewishness, for example. Instead it ranges between staginess (singspiel in the Jewish quarter) and realism (New York harbour), and Sharif's charmed assurance is part and parcel with a narrative arc direly in need of some tension or antagonism before the final reel. On the plus side, it is good to have a love affair that ends on peaceful terms, and Streisand discreetly sets out her stall before being allowed to belt out her closing number.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 151m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
Synopsis:
Daffy Jewish girl rises up through vaudeville to appear as comic lead with the Ziegfeld Follies, but her success unbalances her marriage to a professional gambler.
Review:
The early career of Fanny Brice, with a shining new star perfectly embodying her confidence, determination and essential kookiness. Unfortunately, the production is somewhat staid and conventional where a contemporary style might have made more of her sauciness and Jewishness, for example. Instead it ranges between staginess (singspiel in the Jewish quarter) and realism (New York harbour), and Sharif's charmed assurance is part and parcel with a narrative arc direly in need of some tension or antagonism before the final reel. On the plus side, it is good to have a love affair that ends on peaceful terms, and Streisand discreetly sets out her stall before being allowed to belt out her closing number.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 151m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
Synopsis:
Daffy Jewish girl rises up through vaudeville to appear as comic lead with the Ziegfeld Follies, but her success unbalances her marriage to a professional gambler.
Review:
The early career of Fanny Brice, with a shining new star perfectly embodying her confidence, determination and essential kookiness. Unfortunately, the production is somewhat staid and conventional where a contemporary style might have made more of her sauciness and Jewishness, for example. Instead it ranges between staginess (singspiel in the Jewish quarter) and realism (New York harbour), and Sharif's charmed assurance is part and parcel with a narrative arc direly in need of some tension or antagonism before the final reel. On the plus side, it is good to have a love affair that ends on peaceful terms, and Streisand discreetly sets out her stall before being allowed to belt out her closing number.