![]() The filmmakers fill in the off-camera scenes of the book so seamlessly that Austen might have written them herself.Ĭontinue reading: Pride And Prejudice (1995) Review This production is as faithful to the book as Cliff notes (though at five hours long, it's not much of a time-saver - you might as well read the book). So it's an achievement when a famous book makes it to the big screen, or the small screen, intact - and kudos must go to the A&E/BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice for flawlessly recreating the classic Jane Austen novel. The most obvious recent example (speaking of quests) is The Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson omitted key scenes, changed others, and generally jacked up Tolkien's fanatically-loved bestseller for no good reason. ![]() This is partly because the written word allows more nuance than the camera, but also because great books don't always have enough plotting or action to make great movies, and film adaptations often overcompensate by rewriting the book in a quest to make it more cinematic. Most film adaptations of classic books are inferior to the books they are based on. ![]() On the other hand, the big-screen format allows Saunders and Lumley to give Edina and Patsy a bit of surprising emotional depth amid the usual slapstick nuttiness.Ĭontinue reading: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Review All of these people have their moments, but never quite emerge as much more than comedy sketch figures. Basically, it's little more than a flimsy framework that includes brief scenes for series regulars (including Jane Horrock's airhead assistant, June Whitfield's dotty mum, Celia Imrie's rival PR and Kathy Burke's bulldog editor), plus a few new characters like Chris Colfer's stylist. Written by Saunders, the script is very loose, bouncing around without much focus before a series of impatient, nonsensical conclusions. They're chased by a detective (Robert Webb), who's the boyfriend of Edina's daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), whose teen daughter (Indeharna Donaldson-Holness) has run off with them. Now under investigation, Eddie and Pats flee to the South of France to find Patsy's wealthy ex (Barry Humphreys). But this goes spectacularly wrong when Kate ends up falling off a balcony into the Thames. After failing to sell her memoirs, Edina sets out to woo Kate Moss as a client. So she and her pal Patsy (Lumley) set out to make some cash. She has also guest starred on such shows as Tales From the Crypt, Lovejoy, Bottom, Casualty, El Cid, French and Saunders and Inspector Morse.With her PR agency fading and her money spent on expanding her home, Edina (Saunders) discovers that her credit cards are "broken" and her champagne fridge is empty. Her many other television credits include the series Press Gang and Second Thoughts, as well as Pride & Prejudice and Martin Chuzzlewit. Sawalha most recently completed work on Mirrorball, a new comedy series that reunites the cast from Absolutely Fabulous. She has previously been seen in such films as Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter, Terry Jones' The Wind in the Willows and Claude Whatham's Buddy's Song. On the big screen, Sawalha next co-stars with Lynn Redgrave in Venus & Mars. She more recently starred in Shelagh Stephen's The Memory of Water in London's West End. She also starred in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stafford Castle, and in The Illusion at the Manchester Royal Exchange, for which she received a special mention at the Olivier Awards. Hailing from England, Sawalha started out on the stage at the Newcastle Playhouse, where she appeared in three consecutive Christmas productions for director Ken Hill: The Voyage of the Dawntreader, The Silver Chair and Peter Pan. For her portrayal of the long-suffering Saffron, Sawalha was voted Best Female Performer by the Royal Television Society. ![]() Julia Sawalha is best known to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for her starring role on the hit BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous. ![]()
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