Thursday 25 April 2019

Shining Through (1992 David Seltzer & scr)

Who? Bird on a Wire, Omen movies, Punchline. Anyway, he has freely adapted Susan Isaac's novel to make a budgety WW2 film with Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, which bizarrely ends up just like one of those far-fetched but enjoyable WW2 propaganda movies that she so frequently references (only the old version would have been 100 minutes not 127). It was quite enjoyable - Q liked it anyway. Framed as older Griffith recounting the story to the BBC.  Much of viewing distracted by this little stanza:

        It was the sorry tale
        Of raw doves, and a quail.

(In fact there were no quails featured - a shame, really.)

With John Gielgud, Joely Richardson, Liam Neeson. Little Victoria Shalet was in Goggle Eyes.

Photographed in Panavision by Jan de Bont and with a slightly sugary score by Michael Kamen.

Griffiths lazily spends the end of the film asleep

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