The Lion In Winter (1968) :
Brief Review -
Overdose of conspiracies and turmoil in the one small Royal Family. The Lion In Winter is that one film i will remember for number of conspiracies and contradictions in one single family. A father, a mother, a mistress, 3 sons and One Crown. Not a single blood relation in the film is good, not a single character is happy with the partner whether it is Lover, Wife, Husband, Parents or sons. At beginning I was enjoying all those conspiracies every single character was setting against other one and i thought it would end with lot more tricks and lot more Fun but it appeared differently in the second half. It wasn't about tricks but it was about hatred and realisation of Love which felt typical. At first i wondered if it's a true story or what but now i don't even care because character sense was missing badly and even as fiction it looked terrible. The first half sounded vibrating with enough humour and tricks and the second half was more about family drama or should I say the overdose of it. Peter O'Toole as Henry was very good and full of variations in his character and even in his accent. Katharine Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar Award and i think it was quite enough if not fully. Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry and Jane Merrow were noticeable in few scenes. I strongly disagree with this film winning Best Writing Award (Adaption). It won Oscar for Best Music too which i didn't even notice. Coming to the direction of Anthony Harvey, it's nice and firmly convincing considering the writing it had. Though, i would have loved to see detailing in characterization. This family fiasco is too difficult to digest and to go by but it is a fine attempt. Overall, it is pretty much watchable film for performances and some fun moments but don't expect intelligence.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest
Overdose of conspiracies and turmoil in the one small Royal Family. The Lion In Winter is that one film i will remember for number of conspiracies and contradictions in one single family. A father, a mother, a mistress, 3 sons and One Crown. Not a single blood relation in the film is good, not a single character is happy with the partner whether it is Lover, Wife, Husband, Parents or sons. At beginning I was enjoying all those conspiracies every single character was setting against other one and i thought it would end with lot more tricks and lot more Fun but it appeared differently in the second half. It wasn't about tricks but it was about hatred and realisation of Love which felt typical. At first i wondered if it's a true story or what but now i don't even care because character sense was missing badly and even as fiction it looked terrible. The first half sounded vibrating with enough humour and tricks and the second half was more about family drama or should I say the overdose of it. Peter O'Toole as Henry was very good and full of variations in his character and even in his accent. Katharine Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar Award and i think it was quite enough if not fully. Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry and Jane Merrow were noticeable in few scenes. I strongly disagree with this film winning Best Writing Award (Adaption). It won Oscar for Best Music too which i didn't even notice. Coming to the direction of Anthony Harvey, it's nice and firmly convincing considering the writing it had. Though, i would have loved to see detailing in characterization. This family fiasco is too difficult to digest and to go by but it is a fine attempt. Overall, it is pretty much watchable film for performances and some fun moments but don't expect intelligence.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest