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Director: Arthur Hiller
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From Time Out London
Basically it’s the Broadway musical filmed to the tune of 11 million dollars, and its best moments remain resolutely the theatrical ones: O’Toole becoming the peaky, transparent knight Quixote before your very eyes by way of rubber mask and wig, for instance. The desultory tilting at windmills succeeds less well — ironically in a production which stresses the need for the victory of the imagination. idealism tends to be translated as sentimentality.Author:
Time Out London Issue 1797: January 26-February 2 2005
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- Dennis Oliver said...
- Posted on Mar 22 2011 12:49 I've seen a little theatre production, which I found more coherent and thus more moving. A great concept as a musical, but the movie disappointed me. Yet it deeply moved my partner, who had not seen any previous production.
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