Madonna gives it her all, and the tunes are definitely memorable and widely well-covered. The direction is interesting. Were some of those scenes taken from real life documentary news-films ? The fairly low site rating puzzles me a little, but for some reason I don't think it deserves 8 stars. Can't really say why. Perhaps it was the vacuity of the plot, politics-wise. There was no real explanation of Evita's political significance. She just went around singing and being charismatic and adored. I couldn't quite see what she'd done to deserve all this adoration. Then she died.
This film reminds me of another, plot and politics-wise. This was a film modelled on Huey Long, which I found equally puzzling. The Huey character went around waving his arms about, instead of singing, but the politics were just as vague as in Evita. Sean Penn was the actor, who got murdered in the story, and I suppose it is merely a coincidence that he was the sometime husband of Madonna.
This film reminds me of another, plot and politics-wise. This was a film modelled on Huey Long, which I found equally puzzling. The Huey character went around waving his arms about, instead of singing, but the politics were just as vague as in Evita. Sean Penn was the actor, who got murdered in the story, and I suppose it is merely a coincidence that he was the sometime husband of Madonna.