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A PSFU DO HITCHCOCK thriller, romantic melodrama, and Gethic tale combined into one. Robin Davis new movie I Married A Shadow defies definition. On one hand, the movie is a refreshing thriller that portrays characters as more than mere props to be clanged, banged, and shuffled through "the story." There...
In one warehouse, an A-framed former Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Grothus points out things at random. "Boron-loaded polyethylene, a neutron absorber. Who the hell wants it? I've got twelve or so 400-channel analyzers. Stacks of nuclear-instrumentation modules. IBM card punches and readers-obsolete by...
The actual set is simple, consisting of a bed, nighttable, a sofa, and a table set with a bottle of liquor. But it does not stand out on its own. We only notice it when the actors use various props, when Brick fills his cup or when Maggie nervously makes...
But it's hard to concentrate when few of the characters seem plugged into what's going on, either on the superficial level of scenery and props or the more essential one of tension and buildup. Cohen as Hedda has a good sense of time and tone, and her sudden...
Jacobson as Lovborg is not only convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff...