Word: judie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scorpioni are far from deadly. They're a group of English ladies living in Florence, raising an abandoned, illegitimate child in British virtue and avoiding Fascist thuggery. All that becomes harder to do when Italy enters World War II. Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are glorious comic actresses, while Joan Plowright provides a firm, touching moral center to the film. They almost make you forget Cher's totally out-of-it work as a disapproved-of American and carry the film to its destiny, which is one of inoffensive inconsequence, prettily staged...
...Judi Dench, who recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, takes on a very different but equally convincing role here. She plays Arabella, a sentimental amateur artist who cries while reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Arabella introduces Luca to the beauty of Florentine sculpture and paves the way for his later interest...
Starring Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright...
...Judi Dench, who recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, takes on a very different but equally convincing role here. She plays Arabella, a sentimental amateur artist who cries while reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Arabella introduces Luca to the beauty of Florentine sculpture and paves the way for his later interest...
...plays--works with imaginative ambition, a social context, plots--still exist, however, and two have arrived to end Broadway's season with a flourish. Amy's View has been dismissed, somewhat patronizingly, as a vehicle for Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait...