The Sea Gull
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Time Out says
Basically an actors' film, for which Lumet has assembled a distinguished cast, found a marvellous lakeside location in Sweden, and vaselined the lens to give an air of autumn melancholy. That the result is sometimes dull and almost always unsatisfactory, despite excellent performances, is thanks partly to the traditional English-speaking failure to play Chekhov for comedy and let his tragedy take care of itself (hence the miscasting of Mason as a darkly brooding Trigorin, the over-intensity of Warner's Konstantin); and partly because the prerequisite of any Chekhov cast is a sense of familiarity bred of a lifetime together (so how come Signoret's Arkadina, with an accent you could cut with a knife, has the impeccably English Harry Andrews as a brother?).Author: TM
Release details
UK release:
1968
Duration:
141 mins
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Cast:
Denholm Elliott, Kathleen Widdoes, Eileen Herlie, Ronald Radd, Harry Andrews, David Warner, Simone Signoret, Vanessa Redgrave, James Mason, Alfred Lynch
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