A happier thought...
Sep. 8th, 2005 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpletigronKeira captivates in Pride And Prejudice 2005
"This is, beyond any doubt, the romantic comedy-drama of 2005. ...
If there is any justice (which, of course, there isn't), Keira [Knightley] will win Best Actress at next year's Oscars. Equal to her, though in a less showy way, is Matthew MacFadyen. ...
In a British film of this magnitude, you would expect the older members of the cast to be outstanding, and they are.
Brenda Blethyn is the definitive Mrs Bennet, while the most audacious piece of casting is Donald Sutherland as Lizzie's reclusive father. Sutherland can be a terrible ham, but here he has everything under control, including an impeccable English accent.
As Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Judi Dench is magnificently malevolent. She has a Gorgon's stare reserved for her social inferiors that would turn even Princess Michael of Kent to stone at 20 paces. ..."
"This is, beyond any doubt, the romantic comedy-drama of 2005. ...
If there is any justice (which, of course, there isn't), Keira [Knightley] will win Best Actress at next year's Oscars. Equal to her, though in a less showy way, is Matthew MacFadyen. ...
In a British film of this magnitude, you would expect the older members of the cast to be outstanding, and they are.
Brenda Blethyn is the definitive Mrs Bennet, while the most audacious piece of casting is Donald Sutherland as Lizzie's reclusive father. Sutherland can be a terrible ham, but here he has everything under control, including an impeccable English accent.
As Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Judi Dench is magnificently malevolent. She has a Gorgon's stare reserved for her social inferiors that would turn even Princess Michael of Kent to stone at 20 paces. ..."
