Streaming Topsy-Turvy Online
Lundi, juillet 5th, 2010 |
Streaming Topsy-Turvy Online.
Movie Title: Topsy-Turvy Topsy-Turvy is available for streaming or downloading. |
Topsy-Turvy is the epic of the creation of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, “The Mikado.” It contains not objective the anecdote of the musical’s creation but many scenes from Mikado and other G&S musicals. Long-time “G&S” (Gilbert & Sullivan) fans probably found this movie a long time ago. I am one of them, so first I’ll say that I found the performance of the G&S material in this movie absolutely friendly. I’ve never seen a Mikado as genuinely funning and eccentric as Tim Sprall’s, or a Yum-Yum as winsomely self-centered as Shirley Hendersen’s Leonora Branham.
Viewers who glean musicals simplistic or shallow or generally droll should design an exception in the case of Topsy-Turvy. It is none of those things. In apt Mike Leigh fashion, the actors inhabit their characters like second skin. No one is simple or shallow. Nor does Leigh avoid the seamier side of London theatrical life. I particularly liked Jim Broadbent’s bitterly comical and misanthropic Gilbert, Martin Savage as the opium-addicted George Grossmith (the ‘patter baritone’ who rips through Gilbert’s rapidfire lyrics like a rap song), and Lucy Manville as Gilbert’s long-suffering wife.
Finally, the film is visually attractive and detailed; fabulous costumes, lighting, and sets that seem faultless in their historical detail.
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One of the best, if not the best, bio-pic ever made.
This exquisite retelling of the creation of the Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece THE MIKADO is as amazing a product from the hands of Mike Leigh as a Hollywood shoot-’em-up would have been from Jane Campion. Leigh had made his reputation by crafting some amazingly intimate films about human relationships in films like the extraordinary SECRETS AND LIES (which features in Brenda Blethyn one of the two or three greatest performances ever by an actress in any film) . The concept of doing a historical recreation of Gilbert and Sullivan is not one that easily attaches itself to Leigh. Nonetheless, this film is in every sense masterful and inspiring.
With a director of the ability of Mike Leigh, it is no surprise that the film is safe as a production. Everything is sterling about the film. The art direction and position do is amazing, and I can’t imagine a historical film more compellingly done than this one. Moreover, the musical numbers are exquisitely done, and always convincing.
In the ruin, however, as apt as the direction and the originate are, what drives this movie are the performers. This is a very heavenly ensemble cast, many of them Mike Leigh regulars, like the very heavenly Timothy Sprall, who winningly plays Richard Temple. Jim Broadbent has since the release of TOPSY-TURVY managed to place himself as a superstar character actor through films like MOULIN ROUGE, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, and IRIS (for which he won an Oscar) . I always marvel at his range and his ability to sell any role. He is stellar here as the Stoic and emotionally conservative W. S. Gilbert. I really enjoyed Shirley Henderson (who I recently saw in a gigantic Danish/Scottish film WILBUR WANTS TO Waste HIMSELF, which I hope will salvage released in the United States) in her smallish role as a musical performer who is struggling with problems of addiction (like many others in the D’Oyly Carte company) . The relatively unknown (at least in the U.S.) Martin Savage stands out as George Grossmith, the person who not only starred in the Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, but was the foremost musical stage performer of the slow Victorian age, sort of London’s reply to Mandy Patinkin a hundred years later. Grossmith also wrote a highly well-liked book with his brother Weedon, THE DIARY OF A NOBODY. I could go on and on about other performers who stood out in exiguous but impressive roles, such as Lesley Manville, who has a heartbreaking scene as Gilbert’s unfulfilled and quietly gloomy wife.
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It has to be emphasized that this is not a movie only for fans of light opera. It really is irrelevant whether someone does or does not appreciate Gilbert and Sullivan. This is primarily a movie about people, about reveal business, and about how a group of flawed and merely human beings can collaborate in producing something phenomenal. This is not a niche film. It is a film to be enjoyed by anyone who enjoyed movies at their best.
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