Judy delivers a good monologue, Ali Fazar is fine, the brilliant Adeel Akhtar largely wasted, Thomas Newman's score sounds like a Thomas Newman imitation. Danny Cohen shot it, Melanie Oliver edited.
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Monday 7 May 2018
Victoria & Abdul (2017 Stephen Frears)
Lee Hall adapted Shrabani Basu's book (she had previously written about the queen's love of curry, of which there's curiously none involved here). There's too much 'Munshi' and burqas, if you ask me, and unexplained gonorrhoea.
Judy delivers a good monologue, Ali Fazar is fine, the brilliant Adeel Akhtar largely wasted, Thomas Newman's score sounds like a Thomas Newman imitation. Danny Cohen shot it, Melanie Oliver edited.
Judy delivers a good monologue, Ali Fazar is fine, the brilliant Adeel Akhtar largely wasted, Thomas Newman's score sounds like a Thomas Newman imitation. Danny Cohen shot it, Melanie Oliver edited.
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