Topsy-Turvy
Summary:
Noted for intimate character studies created in collaboration with his actors, director Mike Leigh makes a dramatic change of pace with this biography of comic opera composers W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) is an easily angered but otherwise emotionally remote lyricist who works in collaboration with composer Sullivan (Alan Corduner), a genial an... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jim Broadbent - (W.S.Gilbert)
Alan Corduner - (Arthur Sullivan)
Lesley Manville - (Lucy Gilbert)
Eleanor David - (Fanny Ronalds)
Ron Cook - (Richard D'Oyly Carte)
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Review:
Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy is such a faithful rendering of a past era, it's as though the director time-warped his cinematographer back to 19th century England. In his first period piece, Leigh transplants the grittiness of his films' usual working-class British milieu, and the result is a Victorian England with a lived-in look, rather than one... Continue >>
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