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In effect, the movie relates the rise of the modern audience's exclusive desire for light entertainment and the promotion of that desire by the industry. [...]Leigh centres his attention on their production of The Mikado, a production in which they try to achieve both. The problem here, as happ...

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Published in:Film Ireland 2000 (75), p.50
Main Author: Smyth, Cian
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiences
Broadbent, Jim
Leigh, Mike
Motion picture directors & producers
Realism
Spall, Timothy
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
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Summary:In effect, the movie relates the rise of the modern audience's exclusive desire for light entertainment and the promotion of that desire by the industry. [...]Leigh centres his attention on their production of The Mikado, a production in which they try to achieve both. The problem here, as happens when you let a director loose on a pet project, is that the film relies on an audience's affection for the subject matter.
ISSN:0791-7546