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Garrett 2022-03-13 08:01:01
still very good
1964 Oscar for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Score + Best Actor in Venice.
A typical postmodern nonsensical comedy, narrative: masked characters + exaggerated plot + sudden and forcible reversal of happy ending.
Formally: the character's various words and deeds breaking the fourth...
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Tina 2022-03-13 08:01:01
[Film Review] Tom Jones (1963) 7.3/10
"a resplendent period treat enveloped with ample, lilting, euphonious selections, both aurally and visually."
British New Wave practitioner Tony Richardson's rumbustious Oscar BEST PICTURE champ has been degraded to something of a damp squib half an century later since its triumph is deemed as...
John Moffatt
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Miss Western: As soon as she came back to live with you, Brother, she imbibed these romantic notions.
Squire Western: You don't imagine, do you, that I taught her such things?
Miss Western: Your ignorance, Brother, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.
Squire Western: Damn Milton!
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Miss Western: Tell me, child, what objection can you have to the young gentleman?
Sophie Western: A very solid objection, in my opinion - I hate him.
Miss Western: Well, I have known many couples who have entirely disliked each other lead very comfortable, genteel lives.
