Judi Dench does a GREAT Madame Arcati, one of the juiciest roles for mature women in films or stage. Noel Coward did write Blithe Spirit with Margaret Rutherford in mind!
Judi Dench does a GREAT Madame Arcati, one of the juiciest roles for of all for mature women in films or stage.
Noel Coward had written Blithe Spirit with Margaret Rutherford in mind. It takes real skill to play her as an eccentric mystic but not be too much like a farce.
One reason I could not rate this movie higher than I did was that on the DVD, the subtitles are THE ABSOLUTE WORST DONE that I've ever seen! I don't have hearing loss, but often choose to turn on subtitles or closed captioning on Brit films in case an accent is unclear to me. On this movie, HONESTLY, DID NO ONE CHECK THE WORK OF THE SUBTITLE WRITER???
A typo here and there happens in many films, or a misheard word, but though I didn't count them up I'm sure there were 20-30 or more badly wrong instances in these subtitles. Heaven help those who DO need to depend on subtitles because of inability to hear its dialogue.
Noel Coward had written Blithe Spirit with Margaret Rutherford in mind. It takes real skill to play her as an eccentric mystic but not be too much like a farce.
One reason I could not rate this movie higher than I did was that on the DVD, the subtitles are THE ABSOLUTE WORST DONE that I've ever seen! I don't have hearing loss, but often choose to turn on subtitles or closed captioning on Brit films in case an accent is unclear to me. On this movie, HONESTLY, DID NO ONE CHECK THE WORK OF THE SUBTITLE WRITER???
A typo here and there happens in many films, or a misheard word, but though I didn't count them up I'm sure there were 20-30 or more badly wrong instances in these subtitles. Heaven help those who DO need to depend on subtitles because of inability to hear its dialogue.
- ejchri
- Sep 1, 2023