Hampered by overly difficult audio and rather flat anyway.
I struggled with this film despite being a fan of Robert Altman, particularly his film Short Cuts. Like Short Cuts this film has a large cast of central characters who speak in a very naturalistic low-key way, often talking over the babble of characters in the background.
I don't know whether to blame it on my cheap home set-up but, unlike Short Cuts, I found the dialogue hard to follow - particularly during the first half of the film. Naturally this hampers your enjoyment, especially in a film such as this which is very focused on speech.
Without wanting to give anything away, following the fist half of the film there is an event which gives you cause to reflect on the m...
Not quite a classic detective story
Period drama in classic 'British' style (despite, in fact, being American directed and produced), Gosford Park vividly contrasts the 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' experiences of a country house shooting party, mainly through the eyes of inexperienced lady's maid, Mary Maceachran (Kelly McDonald). Watchable more for its attention to detail than its contrived plot, the film includes an impressive company of British stars of film and theatre, most of whom turn in high calibre performances, though Charles Dance seems rather wasted in his role as one of several impoverished aristocrats dependent on handouts from the house's owner. In a particularly neat twist on the ...
Gosford Park
At his prime, during the 1970s, maverick director Robert Altman would take an established genre and turn it on its head — the war movie with MASH), the western with McCabe and Mrs Miller, the private-eye thriller with The Long Goodbye. With Gosford Park he was back and firing on all cylinders, imposing the same trick on the English country-house murder mystery. A huge cast of mostly British thespians — including Richard E Grant, Emily Watson, Kelly MacDonald and Clive Owen — fleshes out the part whodunnit, part Upstairs, Downstairs satire, while Altman assuredly presents the 1930s-set drama from the servants' perspective. The opening of the piece ̵...
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The movie can be confusing, but pay attention not to the servants in the background and what they are doing! They are the ones who are really the stars of the film and you will get a whole new understanding of the movie. I thought it was great!!
THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME WATCHES..A PERFECT MOVIE FOR WHEN YOU NEED NOT THINK,,BUT NEED TO WACH A FILM..NOT SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT,,JUST WATCH..7/10
