Campanadas a medianoche (Chimes at Midnight) (Falstaff) (1966)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting character in several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, considered by many critics the best of the director's acclaimed Shakespeare films. The script borrows scenes from several plays, but draws most heavily on the two parts of Henry IV, focusing on the shifting relationship between Falstaff and Prince Hal.
Dec 22, 1965 Wide
Cast
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Orson Welles
Sir John (Jack) Falstaf... -
Jeanne Moreau
Doll Tearsheet -
Margaret Rutherford
Hostess Quickly -
John Gielgud
Henry IV of England -
Marina Vlady
Kate Percy -
Norman Rodway
Henry Percy "Hotspur" -
Keith Baxter
Prince Hal -
Alan Webb
Shallow -
Walter Chiari
Mr. Silence -
Michael Aldridge
Pistol -
Tony Beckley
Poins -
Patrick Bedford
Bardolph -
Andrew Faulds
Westmoreland -
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Fernando Rey
Worcester -
Ralph Richardson
Narrator -
Jeremy Rowe
Prince John -
Beatrice Welles
Falstaff's Page -
José Nieto
Northumberland -
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
It takes large latent talent to tell the audience that you know that what you're doing isn't worth doing and still do it better than anyone else in the movie.
A personal viewpoint, it mixes the grotesque, bawdy, comic and heroic, and does have a melancholy under its carousing and battles.
Here is a film to treasure.
Welles waddles through the foreground with an eye on his own problems of patronage, while behind the camera he conjures a dark masterpiece, shot through with slapstick and sorrow.
Top CriticEvidently Mr. Welles's reading of Falstaff ranges between a farcical concept of him and a mawkish, sentimental attitude.
The one Welles film that deserves to be called lovely.
Top-notch Shakespeare and top-notch filmmaking, a rare combination that, when it works, is like nothing else in the whole world.
Despite its many faults, it deserves to be seen.
Perhaps the only one of Welles' films that can really give Citizen Kane a run for its money as the filmmaker's finest work.
Orson Welles' brooding, sometimes brilliant art-house film dwells on the tragic side of one of Shakespeare's most famous comic characters.
It's a delightfully playful rip at history and the traditional way of filming Shakespeare.
A brooding masterpiece.
Mythically beautiful.
A tour-de-force of Wellesian immensity.
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Foreign Titles
- Chimes At Midnight (DE)
- Chimes at Midnight (UK)
