I would recommend this movie based on a very strong performance by Geoffrey Rush. Rush does a great job in portraying many of the great characters Sellers played. I didn?t like some of the ways the story was presented. The director made some unusual choices that didn?t always work.
Rush delivers another brilliant performance, as always. I can't say anything about the story, as I don't know much about Sellers, but as the director explains, this is a "if Peter Sellers made a movie about his life," so I suppose this is how Sellers thought of himself, rather than what everyone else saw of him. Either way, very intriguing. I like the "film-within-a-film" format.
absolutely brilliant performance by Rush. a very well-done biopic of a true comic genius. the fact that the movie itself played tribute to Peter Sellers-style movies was especially appreciable. almost thought Stanley Tucci would have been better cast as Sellers instead of Kubrick, but whatever. a great movie.
Muito bom. Existem filmes biográficos que não vale a pena ver mas este é daqueles que merece a pena dar atenção. Bastante bem conseguido e uma boa tentativa de mostrar realmente a vida atribulada de Peter Sellers. Por detrás da pantera cor de rosa.....
An interessting film that lets you know the real Peter Sellers and you're surprised to discover that he was a giant asshole.
So who he really was is not important. Just remember his work.
Geoffrey Rush he is really Peter Sellers in this movie about his life. It`s made in a comedy way and it reflects how people saw him in his movies. A really good movie about a man that didn`t really seemed to even know himself.
Geoffrey Rush did a great job as the iconic comedian in this biopic. I never knew that Peter Sellers was such a brat off camera that was abusive to his wives. The cast did a good job of supporting Rush as he moved through the various characters, phases of life and moods of Sellers. I liked how Rush took on the role of narrator at certain points in the form of a few different pivotal people in Sellers' life. I enjoyed this flick (even though Peter Sellers obviously had issues.)
Peter Sellers was one of the most talented actors to ever live. Period! He was such a find because of his range as a performer also. He was a master of both comedy and drama. He wowed audiences with work such as 'The Pink Panther', 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb', 'Casino Royale', 'I'm All Right Jack', 'Lolita', 'What's New, Pussycat' and his surprise turn as the lovable savant gardener, Chance, in Jerry Kosinski's 'Being There'. Sellers earned three Oscar nominations, a British Academy Award, an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe, in his unfortunately short career. Sellers was rough around the edges when off camera, and died of a cocaine induced heart attack at the young age of fifty-four. Before seeing this biography, 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers', I was very skeptical about how it was going to be. I didn't know how well Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush would portray the legendary Peter Sellers. Well, I have to say I was impressed with 'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'. I felt it was a very accurate, engaging, engrossing and well-made film that really does the man (Mr. Sellers) justice. I don't think a television movie of this quality could be accomplished anywhere except HBO.
The film chronicles Peter Sellers life when he was a struggling radio artist on British radio to around the time he died in 1980. Peter struggled with making the leap from radio to the film/television media. He was almost content on being just a lower middle-class radio personality, but his pushy mother wasn't. Peg Sellers (Miriam Margoyles), his mother, is shown in this never rested until her son was one of the biggest stars in the world. She'd always push him and guilt trips him into being the best he could at any price, while his father (Peter Vaughan) was a very passive man. Sellers was originally married to an ordinary woman, Anne (Emily Watson), but later left her when he was trying to have an affair with the beautiful and captivating Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquinas). Things didn't work out with Sellers and Loren, leaving poor Peter alone. Peter later married Britt Eckland (Charlize Theron) and had a child with her. The movie shows Sellers unhappy with his film career. He's sick of playing the goof ball in every film he stars in, and wants very much to do a dramatic film, like a movie adaptation of one of his all-time favorite novels, 'Being There'. Sellers also battles a cocaine/heart problem, and dukes it out with all the film directors of his movies including Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) and Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Tucci).
'The Life and Death of Peter Sellers' is an excellent motion picture with many extraordinary aspects. Words cannot express how utterly brilliant Geoffrey Rush is as Peter Sellers. He doesn't just play the role, he embodies it with a passion most film actors never achieve. Charlize Theron is perfect as Britt Eckland, while Emily Watson provides a powerful performance as Mrs. Sellers #1, also known as Anne. John Lithgow is wonderful as Blake Edwards, and Stanley Tucci provides an interesting creepiness to his Stanley Kubrick. Stephen Hopkins does an alright job directing, and Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely provide a great teleplay. Although the film is a little slow moving towards the end, it offers such interesting and perceptive insight on what kind of man Peter Sellers really was.
In conclusion, if you haven't already, rent 'The Life & Death of Peter Sellers'. With such a great teleplay and ensemble cast, I don't think you'll have a hard time being blown away by this made for HBO biography on the man who was a legend. If you enjoy this also check out other HBO films such as 'Angels in America', 'Normal', 'Conspiracy', 'The Gathering Storm' and 'Empire Falls'. Grade: A-
Rush is great in this movie! The perspectives of him playing many different parts similar to the way Sellers did in Dr.Strangelove is a really nice touch. You don't have to even know who Sellers is to enjoy this one.
Geoffrey Rush pulled off the impossible. He made it easy to become engrossed in this fascinating film because I actually came to believe he was Peter Sellers. What a performance!
Well done film , but if you like Peter Sellers don't watch this. It puts him in a too negative light and really makes you dislike him. You might never be able to watch his movies the same way again when you keep this in mind. Geoffrey Rush does a very good job in the role and impersonates alll of Seller's character perfectly, but it's a depressing film to me. It will keep you insterested with it's interesting story telling style.
a beautiful and touching movie about the actor. this movie tries to dig inside the mind of peter sellers and project his thoughts onto the screen. geoffrey rush gave a brilliant performance as peter sellers. definitely a must watch.
Not only does Geoffrey Rush look like Peter Sellers, he does a wonderful job in portraying this iconic actor. At first it was a bit hard to understand the way it was filmed, where Peter protrays other characters throughout the movie, resaying what he wants other people to say about him. It really is a sad story about the person behind the actor. Well done!!
This film prooves how good and actor Geoffry Rush is (in case anyone was in doubt) he effortlessly portrays Sellers, replaying existing footage, biographic content and to-camera monologues, the way the film is created also shows that Hopkins has a very good handle on the film.
Deserved to be more than just a TV movie, Rush is pretty great playing Peter Seller playing other people. I also love the use of the Kinks song in the credits. For fans of any of Sellers' works from the Goons to Being There.
Interesting biopic of Peter Sellers. It's take on his life is similar to the way Sellers approached his work, with Geoffrey Rush as Sellers playing supporting characters in the actor's life from time to time. Interesting for fans of Sellers, and worth a look.
This is possibly the best film I have ever had the pleasure to see. Witty, clever and wonderfully quirky Geoffrey Rush is so perfectly cast for Sellers it's surprising he isn't the man himself. I can not fault.
Forget 'Ray'- this is the biopic of the year! Although this treads the well worn path of the tortured genius, it is injected with a sense of fun by Geoffrey Rush and the superb supporting cast.They generate a genuine emotional clout - you really feel how irritating it must have been to be around him once his comedy schtick wears thin and his eccentricites grate.Clever structuring gives a real sense of how he could only express himself through his characters and 'the film within a film' and shifting perspectives are well integrated.A bold attempt to reinvent a tired genre.
If, as I did, you were uneducated and your first introduction to Geoffrey Rush was in Pirates Of The Carribean, then check this out to see how good an actor he really is.
"People ask me why do I keep compromising my artistic integrity by walking in front of Blake's cameras. Do you know what I tell them? Money."
Peter Sellers, widely known as the Pink Panther, and for playing a multitude of characters in Kurbick's Dr Strangelove, was a deeply disturbed man, overwraught with insecurity and neediness, and Rush captures all of these elements perfectly. Looking at the events in his life thorugh the eyes of the people around him, Sellers attitude is that everybody was really on his side and that he could do no wrong in their view. With great support from John Lithgow as Blake Edwards and Charlize Thero, as Britt Ekland, as well as Emily Watson playing his long-suffering wife, this film is a success. Although very dark and in some areas painting Sellers as a lunatic who didn't care for anyone but himself, there is no doubt that Rush's portrayal of the scenes we all know and love from Sellers work, proves he was the only choice to play this brilliant English clown
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