terça-feira, fevereiro 22, 2005
O Mercador de Veneza
De: Michael Radford
Com: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Gynn Collins
O “Mercador de Veneza”, é uma nova adaptação da peça clássica de William Shakespeare, realizada por Michael Radford, repleta de paixão, incompreensão, hipocrisia, intolerância religiosa e armadilhas. Na poderosa e liberal cidade de Veneza, no século XVI, Shylock vive saudavelmente no meio de empréstimos de dinheiro com juros. Antonio e Bassanio envolvem-se em problemas e pedem-lhe um empréstimo em que o risco é a sua própria vida.
[Engraçado como Jeremy Irons aparece depois de algum tempo de ausência de filmes relevantes em O Mercador de Veneza e Being Julia, que estreia esta quinta-feira.]
The Merchand of Venice
Sumário de Crítica do NY Times:
Shakespeare's most problematic play — at least with respect to modern sensitivities — receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and from a superb cast. Al Pacino, showing welcome restraint after a series of overdone stage and screen performances, emphasizes Shylock's grief and estrangement, turning him into a fragile monster.
But his villainy, however much it smacks of blood libel, cannot be discarded without compromising the play's complex ideas about justice and duty, and Mr. Radford does not try to wash away the stain of anti-semitism that is woven into the heart of his source.
He does remind us how much more is going on in the play, and along with his talented production designer and cinematographer he renders Venice as a series of Renaissance paintings — tableaux that, in evoking Velasquez, Rembrandt, Titian and Vermeer, immerse us in the ferment of early modern Europe.
Jeremy Irons is quietly mesmerizing in the title role, a creature of mysterious melancholy whose soul seems at once pure and rotted. The movie really belongs to Lynn Collins, who gives Portia her rightful wit and charisma, and makes her play's cruel and lovely moral center.
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