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...Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously received Madama Butterfly this fall. Gelb has also hired Broadway directors ? Jack O'Brien, of Hairspray fame, and Bartlett Sher, who did The Light in the Piazza, to stage operas...
...landscape a green and pleasant place. The director, Chris Noonan, doesn't play to our sentiments, he just lets them naturally evolve--even the animation of a few of her drawings doesn't feel especially forced. The result is an honorable and curiously winning film. BREAKING AND ENTERING Anthony Minghella's basic filmmaking impulse is toward the romantic epic (The English Patient, Cold Mountain). He likes to do long, ultimately unhappy love stories set against agitated historical backgrounds that impinge on the fates of his lovers. Breaking and Entering, though set in contemporary London, is a film of that character...
...film is handsomely mounted and well played (particularly by the always magical Binoche--such a wonderfully alert actress), but somehow it never draws one into its schemes. Possibly that's because Minghella (who also wrote the script) has too much on his mind--the costs of urban gentrification, the unhappinesses of émigré and bourgeois life. Minghella is a decent-minded filmmaker. And a liberal-minded one too. He wants his characters to emerge morally instructed and reasonably happy. But it's not a lofty goal, and this is a movie that plods while we keep hoping it will soar...
...Frustratingly, this adaptation of Myla Goldberg’s novel focuses more on spiritual exploration and family tribulation than on silent “eâ€s and phonemes. Gere is Saul Naumann, a cocky, self-absorbed father who demands perfection in his son, Aaron (Max Minghella), and wife, Miriam (Juliette Binoche). He points out a spot his wife misses on a pot she cleans, he obnoxiously corrects his son on minor details, and he never pays attention to his introverted daughter, Eliza (Flora Cross)—that is, until she wins the local spelling bee. Saul...
...ALSO RISES Life equipped newcomer Max Minghella well for his line of work. The 20-year-old plays the son of Richard Gere's distracted Kabbalist in Bee Season and of George Clooney's deceptive CIA operative in Syriana. The Columbia University student's real dad is the sort of man given to thinking deep thoughts and fabricating tales. He's Cold Mountain director Anthony Minghella. "I don't feel I've lived enough to write or direct, but acting is suited to an unformed self," says Max. And it also suits cute boys who summer on film sets...