The National Theater Live film series gave us last night the opportunity to see 'All About Eve', the stage adaptation of the classic 1950 film that was awarded six Academy Awards that year and gave Bette Davis the chance to create one of the best roles of her career. The current version was very well directed by Ivo van Hove, who created a dynamic show and broke the limits of the scene by expanding its space with video projections of dialogues that take place in parallel in other rooms, played by actors behind the scenes.The solution probably worked better in the theater hall than in the movie, where it might have been better to use split screens. The story of the ascent of a young woman who aspires to take the place of the famous star who starts to feel the pressure of age, without saving any means or effort to reach her scopes has been very well played by most actors. The only disappointment was precisely Gillian Anderson in the lead role. She is an actress that I like very much (I was a big fan of the 'X-Files' series) but I think that she exaggerated or was directed to exaggerate the theatricality of the role of the celebrity who struggles with competition from the younger woman, age and problems of an in-accomplished personal life. In any case, the opportunity offered by the local cinematheque to see the London productions in a movie theater ten minutes away from home proved to be once again welcome.
