Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Synopsis:
Sweeney Todd returns to London after years in a penal colony, and has nothing but vengeance in his heart for the wrongs done him by a certain judge. Before long an indifferent pie shop proprietress provides him with the means to that end.
Review:
Full-blooded visualisation of Sondheim's operatic treatment of the old melodramatic warhorse. The accents and production design are flawless, the singing unexceptionable, the claret a shade too bright perhaps, but it is above all the logical culmination of its director and actor's career-long preoccupation with gothic and grand guignol. It holds up pretty well to its antecedents. (Reportedly the only musical ever to have gained an 18 certificate)
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Synopsis:
Sweeney Todd returns to London after years in a penal colony, and has nothing but vengeance in his heart for the wrongs done him by a certain judge. Before long an indifferent pie shop proprietress provides him with the means to that end.
Review:
Full-blooded visualisation of Sondheim's operatic treatment of the old melodramatic warhorse. The accents and production design are flawless, the singing unexceptionable, the claret a shade too bright perhaps, but it is above all the logical culmination of its director and actor's career-long preoccupation with gothic and grand guignol. It holds up pretty well to its antecedents. (Reportedly the only musical ever to have gained an 18 certificate)
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe 116m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Synopsis:
Sweeney Todd returns to London after years in a penal colony, and has nothing but vengeance in his heart for the wrongs done him by a certain judge. Before long an indifferent pie shop proprietress provides him with the means to that end.
Review:
Full-blooded visualisation of Sondheim's operatic treatment of the old melodramatic warhorse. The accents and production design are flawless, the singing unexceptionable, the claret a shade too bright perhaps, but it is above all the logical culmination of its director and actor's career-long preoccupation with gothic and grand guignol. It holds up pretty well to its antecedents. (Reportedly the only musical ever to have gained an 18 certificate)