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Acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh skillfully lifts one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most beloved works from its original fairy-tale setting and places it against the backdrop of the First World War with this impassioned English-language adaptation staged to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the master composer's birth. Tamino (Joseph Kaiser) has been wounded in battle, but his life is saved when he is subsequently rescued by three kindly field nurses. Papageno (Benjamin Jay Davis) is a
Unrated, 2 hr. 19 min.
Sep 7, 2006 Wide
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The results are often fascinating (I love the duet of the Armed Men, sung by a chorus of faces animated out of a wall of sandbags), sometimes ludicrous and never boring.
In the end, love triumphs. In this movie, the music triumphs, proving again that a true masterpiece can survive all kinds of meddling.
Opera buffs shouldn't throw away their DVDs of Ingmar Bergman's 1975 TV movie.
Even though there were moments in The Magic Flute when I wondered if Branagh hadn't truly gone off his rocker, I found its audacity exhilarating.
It dwells quite happily somewhere in the no-man's-land between "Perfect" and "Perfectly Enjoyable."
Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute comes on strong ... maybe too strong...
A week is a long time in cinema. Last Friday saw Branagh being all but written off thanks to the ludicrous Sleuth. This week, he's hitting the high notes.
His flamboyant rendering of the Mozart opera isn't as smug and stagey as Sleuth, but it is insufferable - and 40 minutes longer.
With James Conlon conducting, this Flute is perfectly in tune - so it's a shame Branagh keeps dropping it in the mud.
The film is fresh, spectacular and unafraid to be called philistine.
A genial and good-natured production with much spectacle and entertainment to offer, and, like all of Branagh's classical revivals on celluloid, it manages to be high-minded and yet accessible.
Despite the talent involved - Branagh is joined by Stephen Fry, who has written a new libretto - and the ambitious staging, this flute blows all right, but it's short on the magic.
Flashes of inspiration but not enough, one suspects, to cause a stampeding horde of cinemagoers to beat down the doors of the Royal Opera House.
It's an impressive undertaking by Branagh but a rather pointless one.
A huge budget allows for spectacular CGI sequences and Branagh concocts some startlingly inspired ways to accompany Mozart's music in visuals.
Branagh's imagery is imaginative and the music lifts you. A neat trick.
Apart from a fascination with the hate-spitting mouth and throat of Lyubov Petrova's vocally pyrotechnic Queen of the Night, the visual gimmicks are individually tolerable. But they don't add up to anything particular.
Although Branagh has done a good job of toning down the opera's more ridiculous elements, what remains will test even the most willing opera virgin.
Miles away from the cute theatrical film adaptation of Ingmar Bergman, though bigger in this case is not necessarily better.
I did enjoy it, but it is all a little bit too much: unlike the music, which is just right of course. There are several laugh-out-loud moments and the acting is really excellent throughout. The settings are often disconcerting - rather like a bad dream at times: but I think that is intentional. I'm not sure the first
May 29, 2011Kenneth Branagh, que parecía abonado en exclusiva a las adaptaciones más o menos traicioneras de Shakespeare, abrió el reciente Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla con una versión filmada de La flauta mágica, la célebre ópera de Mozart. Con un guión elaborado a pachas con Stephen Fry, al que últimamente se le pudo ver
November 24, 2006
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