Friday 22 December 2017

An Ideal Husband (1999 Oliver Parker & scr)

Oscar Wilde had provided Oliver with a humdinger of a plot, but he's adapted it well..

Is Julianne Moore cast right, I wondered. But she suits character of out and out bitch.. Rupert Everett has one of his most meaty parts. With Jeremy Northam, Minnie Driver, Cate Blanchett, Lindsay Duncan, Neville Phillips, Peter Vaughan (who's not in it quite enough) and Simon Russell Beale.

Its clear message - that power and money begin to feed themselves - unfortunately still needs retelling.

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