Friday, October 20, 2017

Gods and Monsters (1998)


The last days of the life of famed and disgraced film director James Whale.

Carefully staged period drama with an excellent cast and some lovable details, but a bit lighthearted considering the topic.

Halliwell**: "Enjoyable, if fictional, account of the last days of a director who reinvented himself in America as a middle-class Englishman and a master of horror; if the material is sometimes a little thin, the acting carries it through."

Maltin***1/2: "Exceptional (if entirely fictional) character study of film director James Whale...An exquisite rendering of time and place, with a superb performance by McKellen, matched by Fraser...and Redgrave...A quiet, deliberately paced film; beautifully rendered, with a unique blend of flashback and hallucination."


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