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"The Dead."

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Posted by tinear on January 23, 2006 at 15:02:48

What a wonderfully played extended scene at the party. Ah, for the days when people not only spoke, but knew how to listen. In other words, they knew how to converse. And appreciate music not just passively but as actual musicians and singers.
The success of such a static set-piece depends, of course, not only on the material but upon the skill of the players: they invariably are superb. Angelica Huston, however, mercifully is kept out of most of the festivity scenes. She is very much an American cinema actress and unable to hold her own with the elocution and annunciation of the British theater actors.
In the second part of the film, the scene in the hotel room, she does a much better job--- in fact, her emoting is superb.
This is a strange little film that doesn't fit together well, in other words it has continuity issues, but its poetry and humanity overcome all dramatic shortcomings.

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