![]() Overall I believe it to be a very creative effort. While others present motion picture as painting or poetry. There are some moments of clarity in the movie that are almost bewitching. Are we surprised it shows up in our films. What a melange and patchwork our culture is. We sometimes forget how shallow we have become as a society. Peter Greenaway excels at this kind of film making. It's more a question of whether it works, and how well it was done. It isn't the blending of the modern and the ancient, or the use of multiple styles in itself that is a problem. I point this out as there were many complaints about it in other reviews. Both of these were good films and highly worth watching. ![]() Julie Taymore in her solo attempt to put Titus on film blended styles while injecting modern means and mechanism into near ancient settings, and pulled it off very smartly. The recent film Anonymous about Shakespeare began this way, as do others based on plays of his. I didn't see it at the theater after hearing about the stage within the movie technique, which has actually been done in a few good movies. ![]() All of the male leads, four at my count, complemented each other perfectly and were well done. Whether by acting or writing I don't know. The way Anna was portrayed was out of place. Her part here needed to be much deeper and more complex, but instead it was shallow and trite. ![]() Black Swan did the same for Natalie Portman, another of our cinema sweethearts. Especially her first, which is her most unforgettable. This performance ruins our memory of her former success under Joe Wright. There are several shots where Keira is picture perfect, but this role was not for her. Referring it seemed, to much smaller periods within a film. He replied that he had favorite performances. I once asked Dustin Hoffman if he had any favorite movies or actors. ![]()
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