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Looking For Richard

1996, Movie, PG-13, 109 mins

Looking For Richard: Review

LOOKING FOR RICHARD
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Al Pacino's long anticipated directing debut (his first-ever movie, THE LOCAL STIGMATIC, remains a tantalizing chimera) is a bit of this and a bit of that. If it doesn't precisely add up to greatness, it's still a highly entertaining look behind the scenes as Pacino and friends -- including Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey and a frightfully miscast Winona Ryder -- prepare a production of Shakespeare's Richard III, from chaotic initial readings to full-costume performance. Pacino, who's so often described as "intense" that the adjective has become a de facto part of his name, is a real delight to watch: Simultaneously goofily loose and totally focused, he's the galvanizing force behind both the film and the production within the film. Pacino's muscular, man in the street take on Shakespeare in general and the murderous monarch in particular contrasts nicely with the observations of Derek Jacobi, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, who hold up the high-toned British end of things in interviews that are shrewdly interspersed with the action. That the film is a must for Pacino fans goes without saying; the surprise is how generally enjoyable it all is. leave a comment
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