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Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on December 2, 2003 at 06:38:54

In Reply to: Re: No, not yet... and Patrick alrwady spoiled all the fun posted by patrickU on December 2, 2003 at 06:10:26:

Patrick, I don't remember if I told you, but together with this one I also bought the American production with Audrey - I saw it long ago only.

So yesterday I decided to get a quick preview on the large screen - to see whether that DVD would even make any sense.

Given my limitless love for Audrey I naturally concentrated on her and her acting in that role.

The quality is uneven, in some scenes it is not bad at all, in others the cheap theatrical backdrops are way too visible.

I haven't watched the Borodino battle, decided to leave it for desert, but the unitial settings - the French and Russian troops in anticipation - looked quite convincing... of couse not on par with Bondarchuk's megalo-troop production.

What I was going to say is that the Russian ballerina makes a better Natasha, I think.

This is a preliminary judgement, as I spent all of fifteen minutes with the film so far.

I think Lyudmila Savelyeva is much closer to what Leo Tolstoy had in mind - she is far more of the ugly duckling than the polished Audrey, that looks like the baroness that she is - making her way too sophisticated especially in the beginning.

I intentionally did not watch the ball scene, as I was sure I would not be able to take my eyes off her, perhaps tilting the whole balance in her favor - just seeing her beautiful face on the cover was enough to get my heart beat faster than its usual 44 bpm.

So all in all, I think watching Audrey is a bigger event, but Lyudmila is cast better and her performance is better too.

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