Prick Up Your Ears
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Movie Reviews of Prick Up Your Ears
Movie Review: All The Right Ingredients, But ...
Summary: 3 Stars
This is one of those unusual films that, despite excellent acting, interesting themes and a good script (here, one by Alan Bennett), seems to add up to less than the sum of its parts. Gary Oldman, perfectly cast as the ill-fated playwright Joe Orton, captures precisely the spirit of what Orton and his work seem to have been about--macabre playfulness, unflappable hedonism, and an acute sense of life's absurdity. Alfred Molina also delivers as Kenneth Halliwell, Orton's frustrated lover and literary mentor. Vanessa Redgrave is delightful as Orton's potty-mouthed agent, one among the many courageous roles that epitomize this remarkable actress's career.
Alan Bennett is, however, a verbal writer, which makes it crucial that we be allowed to hear his text. Unfortunately, sound is an area in which this film (and many other British films of its period) fail to excel. Visually, the film should have been good; the sets (especially Orton and Halliwell's claustrophobic one-room apartment) are a perfect fit with the story. But the lighting is a little too understated, a little too monotonously dim. The resultant mood is less like film noir than seasonal affective disorder, and instead of being drawn into the action and atmosphere, you want to go to sleep.
Movie Review: Peevishness Pricks
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is rather a dark look into gay men's relationships from many years ago. Given the need to hide homosexual feelings and relations in past years, it is probably a realistic, if depressing look into that milieu. The film itself is rather slow going, however. It could use more energy and the brutal denouement is rather confused and vague than it is shocking. Still, a good film to see if one is interested in the development of human rights for gay men on this planet.Movie Review: Jealous Talent
Summary: 3 Stars
A next movie of a grey boring existence in London of the Beatles is of a jealous talent killing his partner of a more attractive appearance and successful writer's fate.
May be watched, may not to.