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Silas Marner (1985)

Director: Giles Foster

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From Time Out Film Guide

For sheer prettiness, this is the apotheosis of BBC tea-time classicism. Real locations (care- fully muddied roads, immaculately authentic masonry) look more artificial than any studio mock-up. Foster's ambling treatment of George Eliot's novel - embittered outcast rediscovering humanity - generates the urgency of a waxworks show in its picturesque rollcall of accomplished players, Kingsley's self-consciously actorish miser included. MHoy.

Author: MHoy 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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  • KSpeed said...
    Posted on Jun 29 2008 15:42 Well LHoy's cynicism is not shared by me. I tought Ben Kingsley's performance wonderfully understated and real as a man of his education at that time may have been. This is a moral tale as most of the literature then was but so what? It is sentimental, so what? It does however, illustrate the fact that birth fathers may not necessarily supply the love and care a child needs and that a male is as capable of bringing a child up as a female. Considering that the author moved in philosophical circles, and that the art of pychology had not yet been born and neither had Freud this is a superb
    example not only of the transforming power of love, but the human need to both give and receive. I found the settings romantic, (I'm not sure the "realism" required by MHoy us at all necessary). It is a superb but simple story beautifully filmed and sensitively acted.,
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  • mohammed2007 said...
    Posted on Nov 02 2007 09:57 mohammed mancy
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Cast & crew

Director: Giles Foster

Producer: Louis Marks

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, Freddie Jones, Rosemary Martin, Patsy Kensit, Jim Broadbent, Frederick Treves, Angela Pleasence full cast

Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers

Duration: 92 mins


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