Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Sophie Barthes.
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, David Strathairn, Katheryn Winnick, Dina Korzun, Lauren Ambrose
Description: Paul Giamatti is struggling through rehearsals of Uncle Vanya but he cannot seem to get in touch with the character because he is too weighed down by personal woes. Reading an article in The New Yorker about a revolutionary medical procedure, which temporary removes the soul from the body, Paul nervously visits Dr Flintstein to lighten his emotional load.
Country: US. 2009. 102mins
Neurotic: Paul Giametti (far right) in Cold Souls
Paul Giametti plays a neurotic actor trying to get through rehearsals for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in director Sophie Barthes’s debut.
He just can’t seem to get the tone right.
Then he sees an ad in the New York Times that invites people to shed their souls and keep them in storage.
After a soul transplant, he thinks, he will be able to play Vanya.
The subject is not unlike something either Andre Breton or even Luis Buñuel would cook up.
But, as well as Giametti plays, the film peters out in a way that Buñuel would never have allowed.
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