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Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena; with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall (TIME...
...their efforts to imitate Hollywood, the Italian actresses were outstandingly nice to look at. However, two producers who were not trying too hard to make money, Jean Renoir and Renato Castellani, made two of the year's most beautiful color pictures: The Golden Coach and Romeo and Juliet...
...scenic compositions, are copies from old masterpieces by Lippo Lippi, Pisanello, Carpaccio, Lorenzo. As the orchestra tunes up for the Capulets' ball, five little boys step up to sing, and suddenly are grouped, in lovely archaic rhythm, as a choir of cherubs in Raphael's style. Juliet, in the scene where she first sees Romeo, is dressed like Botticelli's Flora, and the lines of her head and neck might be a tracing from Veneziano's Portrait of a Young Lady...
Image by image, in short, Castellani's Romeo and Juliet is a fine film poem. Unfortunately, it is not Shakespeare's poem. In his obsession with the beautiful single frame, Castellani has ignored not only the rhythm of Shakespeare's scenes but has even failed to set a rhythm when he cuts from frame to frame. Furthermore, his continental ear could not catch the endless modulations of voice that are necessary to make Shakespeare's language intelligible-let alone affecting-to a modern audience...
...their youth-and also of their inexperience. As Romeo, Laurence Harvey fails to generate much glandular heat, and, like most Romeos, reads his lines with a kind of empty fervor. Susan Shentall, while reading hers without distinction, nevertheless has what is so rare and so right in a Juliet: a delicate haze of sensuality that clouds the clear child face with passion's promises. The scene in which Romeo and Juliet meet, in which she foots the galliard, and the two touch trembling hands in the dainty ballad of the masks, is a passage paced to the heartbeat...