Kind Hearts and Coronets
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Movie Reviews of Kind Hearts and Coronets
Movie Review: THE BEST BRITISH FILM EVER MADE
Summary: 5 Stars
Comedies don't get any better than this. And there's nothing black about it. It's probably the most luminous film about revenge ever made. Alec Guinness is miraculous in his multi-faced role/s--see it and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Despite the cynicism that laces this film, it possesses a certain beauty that few British movies (or films from any country, for that matter) have. It's finnesse! This film treads on such dangerous territory that it could have been a disaster, if not for its impecable acting, writing, and visual qualities. The only other period piece from England that has stayed with me and satisfied me as much as this black-and-white gem is The Queen of Spades (1948), which has virtually vanished from the market although I hope that it too will eventually arrive on DVD. If you like to laugh, Kind Hearts is a treasure chest of surprises, shocks, and thrills that leave you completely...well, satisfied, as I said before. Few movies are as involving and thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end as this one. The term "must-see" has seldom been more appropriate. Really, do yourself a favor and enjoy!Movie Review: The best black comedy ever filmed
Summary: 5 Stars
It`s useless to state we are in the presence of the biggest black comedy in all the cinema's story. Every detail is perfect, from the direction, passing through the superb cast, in which Dennis Price gives the best role of his brilliant career. Alec Guiness shows us why he's who he's. A wonderful actor. Not only because in this film gives us eight different roles, but the elegance , the organical flow of its monumental script. Together with Lavender hill mob, Hobson's choice, the man in the white suit and The lady killers, the english cinema never before had literally had an explossion of talents in multiple aspects.
Ironic, cynical, ravishing, ambitious, with a lot of laughs and surrealistic situations, this movie reminds us the other side of the coin about Richard III, because no matter how many crimes you have to commit for reaching your goal.
A must for everyone who loves the craft's cinema.
Movie Review: Guiness is Tour de Force in Eight Roles
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best of the Ealing Studio comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis Mazzini, ninth in line to d'Ascoyne dukedom. His mother was cut out of the family fortune due to her marriage. Louis wants to seek revenge by inheriting the family fortune.
He one by one eliminates those in front of him. But not only must he kill each, he must do it in a way that makes mocks their life. What makes this film delicious are the heirs from General d'Ascoyne to Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne. They are all played by the wonderful Alec Guinness. This was an early sign of his abilities.
This film proves that murder can be deliciously funny. You will drop dead from laughter.
DVD EXTRAS: Alec Guinness Bio - In depth biography of the actor and filmography.
Movie Review: Hilarious British Dark Comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a deliciously hilarious account of a descendant to a titled family who devises a murdereous scheme to gain his rightful, in his mind, place in the family. This film may have more resonance if you were British and those things mean anything to you. Star Dennis Price is hilariously deadpan as he relates in voice-over his efforts to obtain said goal. Alec Guiness, assaying seven roles, is effective in playing the intended victims of Price. Guiness imbues each of these characters (including a female suffragette) with an identity separate from the others that it is quite possible that you don't know it's the same actor in all these roles. This is not just a great British comedy, it's great comedy,period.Movie Review: Black Comedy Heaven
Summary: 5 Stars
I consider this one of the finest, most enjoyable films of all time, and probably the second best comedy of all time (only the great Dr. Strangelove can top it, I submit). This film simply defines black comedy -- that most delicious form of the genre -- and when considering the time of its creation, in the glum early cold war paranoiac late '40s, it must be considered a miracle of cinema. Told in the deadest of deadpan styles, with marvelous performances by Dennis Price and the immortal Alec Guiness (in 8 roles!), it continually horrifies while amusing, as all black comedy must. Time hasn't dimmed its luster one jot. If you haven't seen this gem, run -- don't walk -- to own it and enjoy it over and over again.