Bruce Greenwood, Dina Merrill, Gretchen Mol

When legendary filmmaker Orson Welles's 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons was first produced, it was drastically reedited by its studio, RKO Pictures, prompting a battle that raged for years. In 200...( read more  read more... )1, the cable channel A&E took Welles's original shooting script and realized it in this lavish production directed by Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate). Sixty years after its original production, Welles's vision finally shines through.

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Directed by: Alfonso Arau

Release Date: December 31, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 19, 2002

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  • February 1, 2009
    its a good long film :)
  • April 29, 2008
    ?Los tiempos cambian, debemos aceptarlo?, concluye sentenciante el Mayor Amberson (James Cromwell), en medio de una cena familiar, que se frustra gracias a los humillantes comentarios del engreído hijo, George (Jonathan Rhys Davies), relacionados con ese milagroso para unos, dia...( read more)bólico para otros), invento llamado ?automóvil?, en The Magnificent Ambersons (E.U., 2002), adaptación de la novela escrita por Booth Tarkington.

    El realizador mexicano Alfonso Arau (Como Agua para Chocolate, Un Paseo Por las Nubes), dirige esta suerte de ?remake televisivo? de la adaptación dirigida por Orson Welles en 1942, su siguiente largometraje después del Ciudadano Kane (1941), que desafortunadamente para el gran Welles no tuvo la aceptación que se esperaba en sus proyecciones previas al estreno. El filme fue reeditado varias veces hasta quedar en una desangelada versión, que de todas formas conservó el sello artístico de Welles.

    A diferencia del filme de Welles, Arau quiso hacer una adaptación todavía más completa de la novela. En un largo flash-back muestra los antecedentes de la relación entre Eugene e Isabel, un poco del nacimiento y niñez de George. El punto a favor de Arau en su realización, es haber logrado algo más que un convencional telefilme de época, jugando un poco con el artificio y el delirio (esa forma de filmar el nacimiento de George, como desde dentro del vientre de Isabel), lo mismo para esa forma gradual de ir hundiendo a George en sus obsesiones y locura, en esa sobreprotección que demuestra hacia su madre al querer alejarla de Eugene.
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  • April 27, 2008
    I watched this because it is supposed to be a faithful presentation of Orson Welles' original script and vision. While a fairly recent movie, the old script makes it feel dated. Still, it finds its pace in the second half, and benefits from some good performances by the cast, Gre...( read more)tchen Mol shining foremost among them.

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