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Bookmark this pageMiddleton's Changeling (1997)
Director: Marcus Thompson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Attempting a radical update of Middleton's Jacobean tragedy, with the iconoclastic intentions, but without the discipline or sense of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet, writer/producer/director/editor Thompson throws in incongruous modern trappings amid a general sense of gothic medievalism. At court in Alicante, Beatrice (Ray-King), betrothed by her father Vermandero (Mayes) to marry Alonso (Williams), falls for dashing Alsemero (Ó Maonlaí). Their trysts are witnessed by Vermandero's servant De Flores (Dury), a toad-like villain who lusts after her and whom she abhors. In desperation she accepts his offer to dispose of Alonso; then, before she can marry Alsemero, De Flores reveals his price - Beatrice's virginity. Intercut are lengthy scenes of Connolly running a slave-trade circus of lunatics. Gary Moore's monotonous guitar lines soar across the soundtrack, attempting to evoke grand tragedy, while Thompson's camera indulges in similarly grandiloquent swoops.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Marcus Thompson
Producer: Marcus Thompson
Cast: Ian Dury, Amanda Ray-King, Colm Ó Maonlaí, Billy Connolly, Campbell Morrison, Moya Brady, Richard Mayes, Guy Williams, Vivian Stanshall full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 96 mins
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