Oliver Twist (2005)
Country: GB/FR/CZ
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Barney Clark, Ian McNeice
Synopsis:
Young orphan Oliver is acquired by a workhouse, passed on to an undertaker's, from where he runs away to London, then picked up by a gang of pickpockets under the tutelage of a wily old Jew. At which point his troubles are only just beginning...
Review:
Splendidly pictorial updating of many of the virtues of Lean's classic film adaptation, though without the gothic quality. The roles are appealingly played and Kingsley's Fagin, though often unintelligible, is a brilliant balancing act of pathos and villainy.
Country: GB/FR/CZ
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Barney Clark, Ian McNeice
Synopsis:
Young orphan Oliver is acquired by a workhouse, passed on to an undertaker's, from where he runs away to London, then picked up by a gang of pickpockets under the tutelage of a wily old Jew. At which point his troubles are only just beginning...
Review:
Splendidly pictorial updating of many of the virtues of Lean's classic film adaptation, though without the gothic quality. The roles are appealingly played and Kingsley's Fagin, though often unintelligible, is a brilliant balancing act of pathos and villainy.
Country: GB/FR/CZ
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Barney Clark, Ian McNeice
Synopsis:
Young orphan Oliver is acquired by a workhouse, passed on to an undertaker's, from where he runs away to London, then picked up by a gang of pickpockets under the tutelage of a wily old Jew. At which point his troubles are only just beginning...
Review:
Splendidly pictorial updating of many of the virtues of Lean's classic film adaptation, though without the gothic quality. The roles are appealingly played and Kingsley's Fagin, though often unintelligible, is a brilliant balancing act of pathos and villainy.