Sunshine has done the impossible by reinventing the concept of "high stakes," it's a marvelous treat...gripping and beautiful, twining the music of the spheres with the reptilian brain inside us all.
Sunshine (1999)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:36
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 3 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director István Szabó's SUNSHINE is an epic tale that follows the Polish family the Sonnenscheins through five generations spanning more than 100 years, from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s,... Director István Szabó's SUNSHINE is an epic tale that follows the Polish family the Sonnenscheins through five generations spanning more than 100 years, from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, exploring the history, politics, world wars, social diaspora, and economic shifts that influence and change them during that period. Beginning with Emmanuel Sonnenschein, who builds a business around the family product (a Taste of Sunshine tonic), the film follows the lineage from his son Ignaz (Ralph Fiennes), a political conservative loyal to the Hungarian Republic, to Ignaz's son Adam (also played by Fiennes), an olympic fencer who is victimized by the Nazi genocide, to Adam's son Ivan (Fiennes again), a member of the Hungarian communist regime who manages to divorce himself from it and be free. Through these transitions, it is Valerie (played by both Jennifer Ehle and her real-life mother, Rosemary Harris), the cousin and wife of Ignaz, who becomes mother to Adam and grandmother to Ivan, supplying moral support, a family backbone, and photographs: a signature snapshot technique is used in the film to round out each major chapter or event. A beautiful film with easy transitions, dramatic scenery and costumes, and admirable performances, SUNSHINE's themes of family, history, and Hungarian pride resonate far beyond the big screen. [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, William Hurt, Molly Parker, Deborah Kara Unger, David De Keyser, James Frain, Miriam Margolyes, John Neville, Mark Strong
Director: István Szabó
Director: István Szabó
Screenwriter: Israel Horovitz, István Szabó
Producer: Andras Hamori, Robert Lantos
Composer: Maurice Jarre
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... a visionary odyssey with a grace and awe and visual scope that calls to mind Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey for a new millennium...
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