Basic Information
Region
:
2
Video
:
Pal
Widescreen 1.85:1 , 16:9
Audio
:
Dolby Digital 5.1: English, Spanish, Catalan
Subtitles
:
English, Spanish
Rating
:
13
Launch date
:
12/13/2005
Synopsis
A 17th-century "Star Is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis. Billy Crudup is Ned Kynaston, one of the biggest stars of the London stage, who speciallizes in playing Shakespearean heroines. Claire Danes is Maria, his loyal, ambitious dresser, who, with the help of the king´s mistress, ends the long ban on female performers, thus destroying Ned´s career. In spite of a sludgy Sunday-brunch score and a weak performance from Ms. Danes, the film explores its period with rare precision and with a lively sense of intellectual curiosity. Much of this is squandered, though, in a flat and conventional final act that turns Ned and Maria into the inventors of Method acting and, recoiling from its earlier subtlety, celebrates a world where men are men and women are women..
Extras
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