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Movie Reviews of Sunshine
Movie Review: THREE HOURS THAT FLY
Summary: 4 Stars
This film was, at times, painful to watch. For example, the concentration camp scene when Ralph Fiennes refuses to identify himself as a Jew but insists he is Adam Sors, Hungarian, champion fencer, etc. is painful to watch. He is beaten and finally strung up where water is sprayed on him until it freezes, all with his son looking on. The film is epic in length (three hours), but those three hours pass effortlessly as the story is told of three generations of the Sonnenschein family and their trials through the turbulent 20th century. Anti-semitism and revolution kept displacing the family and their identities until finally only one or two of them remained by the end of the film. All the performances here are magnificent. Ralph Fiennes plays three different roles here, and all to perfection, ambitiously. He certainly plays the opposite role for which I most vividly remember him (Commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's List). Jennifer Ehle plays the younger Valerie Sonnenschein/Sors, while Rosemary Harris assumes the role later in the film with grace and believability. Overall there are many details that could be highlighted to review the film, but it is above all a film that should be watched for oneself. It is a potent reminder of history's lessons and how power (or lack of power) shapes people.
Movie Review: One Hundred Years of Sunshine
Summary: 4 Stars
This historical epic/family drama from the master of Hungarian cinema, Istvan Szabo (Mephisto, 1981; Being Julia, 2004) is a wonderful and memorable film that has been overlooked, underrated and sadly under-seen.
This is a moving and always engrossing drama about one Jewish-Hungarian family that rises and falls throughout the 20th century. Ralph Fiennes is outstanding as the grandfather, the father and the grandson. All three - complex and tragic characters, victims of their times, politics and wars. I think it was a brilliant idea to cast one actor as a face of three generations of one family. If ever anyone attempts to adapt Marquez's "One Hundreds Years of Solitude", that's how it should be done, IMO.
"Sunshine" is three hours long but never for a minute had I felt it was too long or it was losing its power. It is a serious, thought-provoking film which is also a superb work of art.
4.5/5
Movie Review: Extraordinarily ambitious
Summary: 4 Stars
At three hours, this covers nothing less than the entire last 100 years of Hungarian history in the guise of a family sage spanning three generations. Ralph Fiennes does a bang-up job of playing three roles, managing to look just a bit different each time as he morphs from the 19th century as a judge, to a WWII fencing champion and finally as a Nazi hunting Communist. All the roles in the film are well played. I have no idea how anyone could sit through this in a theater. I needed several breaks over several days, but it is edited fairly energetically so it never really lags. In the end, it's a tragedy as we see the absurdity of eastern Europe's political travails that never really end.Movie Review: Sunshine is a celebration of Ralph Fiennes' acting abilities
Summary: 4 Stars
Sunshine is a beautiful film about a changing Jewish family. The film spans over three generations as the family undergoes many hardships. There does remain one constant though, Ralph Fiennes portrays a character in each generation. You see some of the same mistakes and concequences that his fathers before him repeated. Yet each of the three different roles that Ralph portrays is quite difinely unique. Sunshine truely is a celebration of Ralph Fienes' acting abilities.Movie Review: Compelling, sweeping story
Summary: 4 Stars
Ralph Fiennes delivers in each of his three roles as a different man in three generations of a Hungarian family. Each man is torn between his family, his politics, and his own desire. The movie is a solid three hours long and feels very much like a mini-series (a good one). The acting is great, the cinematography is gorgeous, and the story is consuming.