of a ministerial friend who says too much at dinner, namely: there is a faction trying to make peace with Hitler. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. AP All of them are horrifyingly convincing at being blood-conspirators working for Hitler inside the British Establishment. I asked myself whether better editing would have made enough difference to not regret wanting those couple hours back that I wasted watching this. Sat 21 Nov 2009 19.06 EST. I can only suppose that all those years writing for the BBC led Poliakoff to believe that incinerating pussy cats would be a good metaphor for the Holocaust. More Toronto festival reviews TORONTO -- "Glorious 39" sends mixed signals. She is in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence (Stardust's Charlie Cox), but after the discovery of some secret recordings on vinyl records, containing conversations of political matter. Just plain old-fashioned duff. Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? The third act is a definite dramatic fumble that never follows through on the menace implied.
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Sitemap | All Critics (24) I enjoyed this movie because it took a turn I wasn't expecting when the family started acting strangely.
Unfortunately may parts of the story seemed to weird to be true and in the end I didn't understand if the girl was simply crazy.
and the Terms and Policies, But, when taken as a whole, [Stephen] Poliakoff's film is a watchable and involving thriller which effectively uses its setting to tell a menacing story of a family - and a country - being torn apart by an all-encompassing war. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email.
I always enjoy watching BBC films, always very well acted and usually an interesting story that makes you think. The film had a very poor storyline, was overly dramatic, built tension so many times with so many anticlimaxes it left us feeling like we had just wasted 2 hours of our lives. I will admit first that I didn't understand the full story by about halfway through, but the performances by the all British cast, especially Garai, are very good, and there are some memorable moments, so it is certainly not a bad wartime drama.
| Rating: 3/5 Her sinister aunt is played by Julie Christie with menacing effectiveness, and her brother and sister (not adopted, but 'blood family' to Nighy) are played by Juno Temple and Eddie Redmayne.
Poliakoff is the Rembrandt of contemporary British filmed drama, who paints the light magically and miraculously with a uniquely dark and Manichean brush.
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The plot was circuitous, bloated and downright absurd. Her eyes get wider and wider with each passing minute of screen time as her fear mounts. This harrowing and extremely nail-biting film shows the slow and painful discovery of the British Vehme at work, as perceived by the adopted daughter of one of them, who is a British MP played by Bill Nighy with his usual brilliance and effectiveness. Reviewers simply don't "get" the underlying tension of the film, which probably relies too much on viewers' understanding that many, many aristocrats/Tories were trying to avoid war with Hitler and often sympathized with him. TWITTER Enter a sinister character played by Jeremy Northam, soon to be followed by the suicide(?) External Reviews © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray ... Glorious 39, when I first heard of it, ticked all of the boxes for what I would normally like in a film - Romola Garai, David Tennant, Bill Nighy, 1930s setting, war drama, so on and so forth.
A threatening man in dark clothes follows her on a bicycle.
2:50 PM PDT 9/17/2009 Though there have been books and other films that deal with the dissidence between the aristocrats and the general populace of England around the topic of WW II, this beautifully executed 'historical thriller' brings many aspects of those discrepancies of opinion to light in a manner not unlike the similar thought processes in Germany at the same time: the gentry of Germany turned a blind eye to the events surrounding them (The Final Solution) in order to believe in what they chose to believe as a promise for stabilization and world importance as a genteel country. I viewed this via DVD in the company of family and friends, and there wasn't one of us who could say we enjoyed it.
Anyone who had watched one documentary on Edward VIII seemed to be more au fait with the facts than the purveyors here.
Don't have an account? The cast all dresses its period best, while recordings of old songs get viewers in the mood. | Listening to the cast talk about the history, it sounded like they believed that no-one had ever heard about the lengths appeasement might have gone to in England. Romola Garai is extremely good but the film is an elegant disappointment. I suppose she had to be a gypsy to take us back to the concentration camps - the English upper class turning on its own gays and gypsies - that artifice had to be worked on the unsophisticated audience as well. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. It is interesting that one of the victims of the British Vehme shown in the film is someone we see hanging upside down in a sack.
I am sure no Siamese were harmed in the making of this production, sadly few clichés were either. Now it is just slow and quite unbelievable, things happen because the plot needs them to happen, and you can see the cogs turning.
Sign up here. This film goes a long way towards ripping the lid off this scandal, but the film is in no way a political film, it is a personal drama in the format of a hyper-tense thriller. This seemed (from an oft-repeated BBC trailer) a fascinating pre-war thriller worthy of Graham Greene or John le Carre. You will receive a verification email shortly.
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A bizarrely tasteless pet-euthanasia subplot -- clumsy parallels with the Holocaust abound -- is merely the wackiest turn the wildly unconvincing script takes: it's well below Poliakoff's more intelligent TV work. Trouble is, these menacing signs begin too early, before Anne even logically knows anything about a conspiracy.
Then the characters, randomly walking around, tattling some nonsensical lines, and not a one of them looks real. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Garai is brilliant in the lead but the whole cast also excell and if it wasn't for a weak ending that kind of undermines the whole point of the story this would be up there with his best work. In fact, if not for the adult material and language, this could pass for a movie of the era which was also a time of great uncertainty, reflected in Anne's suspicions and sense of dislocation. 'Glorious' relates to both the nature of that year's summer and the affectionate name for Garai's character Anne, the adopted daughter of the aristocratic Keyes family which is headed by an influential Conservative Member of Parliament who is appalled by the notion of the country going to war for the second time in only a couple of decades.
Overall, a bad performance by the lead combines to create a film that makes no sense as a thriller. |. While its lingering pace is not automatically a mark against it, the film is about 30 minutes too long. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. What a waste.
Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. The actors portraying family members, including Julie Christie as an aunt, let their behavior grow more menacing toward Anne.
That's not to mention the attention to detail, although one has to wonder if they had the technology to surreptitiously record conversations back then. Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Here Poliakoff partially strips the veneer from the genteel surface, but I wish he had gone further and been more explicit even than this. With its wartime intrigue bubbling up in English country houses, a rich aristo clan disrupted by secrets and betrayal and the presence of Romola Garai, Glorious 39 carries more than a faint whiff of Atonement about it. No, not enough.
Please refresh the page and try again. Forgot your password? Stephen Poliakoff performs his usual routine of conjuring an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue for the first hour and failing to fulfil it in the second. | That is the problem.
We were laughing at the absurdity of it my the end and although we stuck it out for 2 hours, we were beginning to not care how it ended. Glorious 39, when I first heard of it, ticked all of the boxes for what I would normally like in a film - Romola Garai, David Tennant, Bill Nighy, 1930s setting, war drama, so on and so forth.
It's a shame, as for a number of years, Polliakoff's work was consistently interesting; but this is a mess. The nods towards Hitchcock remind us that in 1938 the Master made an allegorical masterpiece about Munich and appeasement, his greatest British movie, The Lady Vanishes.
One of the weakest parts of this film was that it began (and ended) with a rather pointless visit to the future, introducing a young descendant of the family in the main plot, who is apparently investigating their family history.
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Glorious 39 was quite simply, awful. Very few surprises were actually unexpected - you cannot expect an audience to have the same emotional connections to characters as your lead does, nor their naivety. Alle Kritiken zu » Glorious 39 (2009) « auf Moviejones - Lies die offizielle Filmkritik der Redaktion und erfahre, was die die User zum Film sagen.
Sat 21 Nov 2009 19.06 EST. Privacy | Alas, this is a dreadful mess of a movie. I have just watched this film with my wife, 43, my daughters 16, & 19 and my daughter's friend (male, 20). Copyright © Fandango.
The film could stand alone without this subplot. GamesRadar+ is supported by its audience. All rights reserved. It is pretty, though, in terms of dresses and houses and lighting, if not the actors. In what now seems a somewhat exaggerated tidbit of praise, Company called the film "This year's Atonement". Scream Queen Showdown: Who Is the Ultimate Final Girl? Not that its visuals aren’t handsome, Poliakoff glossing over some of the film’s limitations with lavish period trappings. I do like Poliokoff's work.
Instead of inquiring about his grandmother, Celia(Juno Temple), he wants to know about her sister, Anne(Romola Garai), an actress who disappeared. We will suspect anybody and everybody, more so if they seem good on first appearances.
Just remember that nothing is as ever simple as it first seems, nor was 'appeasement,' as Noam Chomsky points out elsewhere that England in 1938 was more worried about the threat posed by the Soviet Union than Nazi Germany.
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