Given we’re still living with a pandemic threatening to find its second or third wind this summer, there are fewer Hollywood blockbusters on offer this year.
It requires somebody named Steven Spielberg to consider making a new version of an indisputable classic. One might imagine it’s hard to improve on a show with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, but Spielberg gives it a go, enlisting award-winning playwright Tony Kushner to provide some fresh dialogue and novel twists. Rita Moreno, who played the romantic lead María in the 1961 version, is back as a new character named Valentina.
In a mixed-up future, a middle-aged Thomas Anderson – played by a middle-aged Keanu Reeves – has been brought back from the dead and is working as a games designer. In another time-space continuum a group of steampunk rebels have other ideas for Tom. The problem for our hero, and the rest of us, is to decide which world is real and which is AI-generated fantasy.
We establish right away that Julie is a talented person who can’t stick at anything – whether it be her studies or her relationships. She’s actually a bit of a pain, but we get used to her and grow steadily more sympathetic. It’s not simply that she makes the wrong choices, it’s as if circumstances conspire to make those choices progressively more complicated.
The acting is uniformly excellent, and there are a few memorable moments including a bad acid trip, but one shouldn’t go along expecting anything but a skilfully described slice of life. Don’t go pining for car chases and martial arts contests, just sit back and enjoy the subtitles.keeps casting its spell over successive generations of filmmakers. Orson Welles made a version in 1948, as did Roman Polanski in 1971. Akira Kurosawa turned the play into a Japanese costume drama in.
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