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This picture succeeds as a comedy, a satire, and even, to a certain extent, as a mild melodrama about choosing between a paycheck and the nourishment of the soul. A Midwinter's Tale is also a stylistic accomplishment. Filmed in black-and-white, it's a movie of shadows and starkly contrasting images, all of which are used to their best effect.
Synopsis. Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may ...
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They’re the same question to Joe, a struggling (read: jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform – and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a megabudget scif-fi movie. SD. Rent $2.99. Buy $9.99. Once you select Rent you'll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it.
Dec 12, 2023 · A Midwinter's Tale Blu-ray Release Date December 12, 2023 (In the Bleak Midwinter, Warner Archive Collection). Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Cheap Blu-ray movies and deals.
The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (read: jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a megabudget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (read: desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (read: even more desperate) version of the ...
Kenneth Branagh writes and directs a comic tale about an out-of-work actor's desperate attempt to salvage his career and his life by staging a production of Hamlet. Lacking time and money to do the play justice, he hires a motley cast of drunks, incompetents, oddballs and an aging female impersonator to play Queen Gertrude. Now, through backstage dramas, inevitable disasters and the occasional ...
Dec 12, 2023 · Whether or not Branagh intended it this way, "A Midwinter's Tale" is a glorious valentine to those of us amateurs who have trod the boards and dreamed of glory but have ultimately settled for the smaller pleasures that life freely grants.
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