Silas Marner

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Time Out says

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

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Release details

UK release:

1985

Duration:

92 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Giles Foster

Cast:

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

Music:

Carl Davis

Production Designer:

Gerry Scott

Editor:

Robin Sales

Cinematography:

Nat Crosby

Screenwriter:

Giles Foster, Louis Marks

Producer:

Louis Marks

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  • 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.,

    KSpeed Sun Jun 29 2008
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