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Post by mikef6 on Dec 11, 2019 0:00:32 GMT
I have seen this twice. Once many years ago and again in 2016, Shakespeare's 400th death anniversary when I revisited every Shakespeare play. In spite of that posed picture, the scenes with Ian Richardson and Judi Dench as the sexiest King and Queen of the Fairies ever are shot very dark and perhaps with some kind of filter on the camera so you're always going, is she really...is that...no it can't be...there it is again. It's peek-a-boo all the way through. Titillating but never explicit. This film is very much worth seeing. The rest of the major cast includes Helen Mirren, David Warner, Michael Jayston, and Diana Rigg as the four lovers from Athens, Ian Holm as Puck, and Paul Rogers as Bottom so you know it has some great and charismatic talent. Funny, that's not how I remember it. I don't have a copy of the film but somehow I remember very clear, bright shots and just a few dark shots. What a great cast too, hey? All the people you mentioned, most of them unknown then but very famous now. I may not have seen a good print. I watched an older mystery thriller the other night where the daytime scenes were very grainy and the nighttime and old dark house scenes were just black. Not a thing could be seen in the scene. May I should watch it a third time.
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