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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 383408" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Great Escaper</span></strong> (2023)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JhRgbvyMQSqq3WBi4RUBQe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 789px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Most notable for being the last film performances of Glenda Jackson and (so we're told, at least) Michael Caine. And it's a most worthy curtain call. Both are wonderful in this film.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The retirement home where the characters live feels like a real community or extended family, and staff and residents with smaller roles are nicely cast (how surprising to see that one of them was Karen Carpenter tribute act Jackie Clune) Even with so little material it feels we already know them.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The story itself rings bells, so I probably read about the real-life events when it happened a decade ago. It's beautifully told here: funny and heartbreaking. I found the love more painful than the losses, because of its endurance and fragility. It's a little strange seeing Michael Caine in particular looking so old and frail, but he still shines through in it, and the chemistry between the two is very believable. It's easy to imagine they've been together for seventy years.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">The flashbacks to WWII are the parts where suspension of disbelief was required, since we know what the actors looked like when they were much younger. For someone who hadn't seen them in projects of earlier decades, it would probably have been easier to buy. All the same, it looks as though the actor playing the young Caine had done his homework in terms of mannerisms and speech patterns (the actress playing young Glenda less so. She looked a little like her in one or two long shots but that's where the similarities ended).</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">John Standing is terrific, and the French adventures with its haunted veterans from various wars is a must see.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">All in all it's a beautiful little film that got me in the heart and in the tear ducts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 383408, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Great Escaper[/SIZE][/B] (2023) [IMG width="789px"]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JhRgbvyMQSqq3WBi4RUBQe.jpg[/IMG] Most notable for being the last film performances of Glenda Jackson and (so we're told, at least) Michael Caine. And it's a most worthy curtain call. Both are wonderful in this film. The retirement home where the characters live feels like a real community or extended family, and staff and residents with smaller roles are nicely cast (how surprising to see that one of them was Karen Carpenter tribute act Jackie Clune) Even with so little material it feels we already know them. The story itself rings bells, so I probably read about the real-life events when it happened a decade ago. It's beautifully told here: funny and heartbreaking. I found the love more painful than the losses, because of its endurance and fragility. It's a little strange seeing Michael Caine in particular looking so old and frail, but he still shines through in it, and the chemistry between the two is very believable. It's easy to imagine they've been together for seventy years. The flashbacks to WWII are the parts where suspension of disbelief was required, since we know what the actors looked like when they were much younger. For someone who hadn't seen them in projects of earlier decades, it would probably have been easier to buy. All the same, it looks as though the actor playing the young Caine had done his homework in terms of mannerisms and speech patterns (the actress playing young Glenda less so. She looked a little like her in one or two long shots but that's where the similarities ended). John Standing is terrific, and the French adventures with its haunted veterans from various wars is a must see. All in all it's a beautiful little film that got me in the heart and in the tear ducts.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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