I haven't seen this version in many years, and I'd like to see it again. Mainly I remember Hopkins and Bloom, so I want to pay more attention to Elliott and Massey.
Let me know what you think if you do! It held up for me.
Recently a local cable station was supposed to be showing it, but instead they showed the Losey version, and I bounced off the bit of it I saw.
They get confused even in internet searches. The Roku Channel thought it had the Garland version and then I clicked through and it was Losey; ditto Tubi. I get that the film works with a lot of doubling and reflecting, but that's no excuse.
Which bit did you bounce off of? I have no reason to believe that Fonda wouldn't have made a good Nora, and I've liked everything by Losey that I've seen so far, but frontloading everyone's precisely revealed histories as the opening action just did not work for me and the fact that either the director or the screenwriter thought it was a good idea felt like it was warning me off the rest of the interpretation.
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Let me know what you think if you do! It held up for me.
Recently a local cable station was supposed to be showing it, but instead they showed the Losey version, and I bounced off the bit of it I saw.
They get confused even in internet searches. The Roku Channel thought it had the Garland version and then I clicked through and it was Losey; ditto Tubi. I get that the film works with a lot of doubling and reflecting, but that's no excuse.
Which bit did you bounce off of? I have no reason to believe that Fonda wouldn't have made a good Nora, and I've liked everything by Losey that I've seen so far, but frontloading everyone's precisely revealed histories as the opening action just did not work for me and the fact that either the director or the screenwriter thought it was a good idea felt like it was warning me off the rest of the interpretation.