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List Price: $14.98 Features • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1998 DVD Release : 20 February, 2001 |
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Illuminata description John Turturro's homage to the world of theatrical make-believe may fall short of the shining beacons of this Shakespearean genre--Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander and Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach, for two--but his Illuminata casts considerable sweetness and light of its own. Mostly set in a teeming warren of private and p ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Horrendously overplayed, wildly unsuccessful |
| How can a film with such a cast be so little known? Well, sadly because it just isn't any good. And equally sadly, the blame seems to rest fairly and squarely on John Turturo's shoulders, who fails as co-writer, leading man and director to ever bring a cohesiveness to his material. To call it disjointed is being kind.
Illuminata is one of those films where you can see what the original appeal was but which just wears you down as it gets worse and worse and worse while intermittently throwing you a bone only to snatch it away. The screenplay is a complete mess, John Turturo's direction extremely poor and the tone horrendously uneven, not simply from scene to scene but from actor to actor: some of them don't even seem to be acting in the same movie. With the very honorable exceptions of Katherine Borowitz and Rufus Sewell, most of the stellar cast embarrass themselves on a regular basis with outrageously unfunny OTT performances that are out of place even in a backstage period piece. It's easy to imagine Woody Allen circa Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy being able to tame the material and bring out its strengths, but Turturo just lets it run all over the place, with the bad all too often swamping the brief passages of good dialog completely. A pity. |
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