Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

It’s a perfect Agatha Christie whodunit type of film based on an
idea by Robert Altman and Bob Balaban and scripted by Julian Fellowes that
looks and feels like Jean Renoir’s 1939 Rules of the Game, but what makes
it different is that it’s told from the servant’s view. The film’s master
76-year-old American director Robert Altman declared that if George Bush
would get elected president, he would leave the country. While living in
England he has made his best film in a long time, an intricate and crowded
ensemble cast murder mystery film that consists of a mostly Brit all-star
cast. It’s set in November 1932 in the English countryside, as the story
centers on the relations among the different social classes from upper,
middle and lower class backgrounds. The guests have come together for a
weekend of bird shooting and to attend a dinner party on the fancy country
estate of the wealthy Sir William McCordle (Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia
(Thomas). A murder will surprisingly take place, as an unseen party puts
a carving knife into the host and everyone is a suspect including: relatives,
guests, friends, servants, and a Hollywood actor and producer. It’s a marvously
elaborate embellishment of “Charlie Chan in London,” only the inspector
(Fry) investigating is not as skilled as Charlie Chan. He’s a bumbler who
is more impressed with being in the company of the aristocracy and of them
knowing his name than in solving the case. Though, to his credit, he does
establish that Sir William was poisoned to death before someone stuck him
with a knife, and that there were many people present who had reason to
hate the despicable man.

The fun in this film is in the perfectly nuanced performances of
the large cast, the director’s uncanny eye for detail in this period piece
– whether it’s the vintage cars, the dining room settings, the rituals
of the shoot, the snobbery of both the servants and the aristocrats, the
class envy, or in the delicious gossip dished out and the revealing secrets
that pop up about almost everyone during the course of the story. There’s
also the behind the scenes struggles taking place of those shameless relatives
of Sylvia’s wanting to live parasitically off the wealthy womanizing Sir
William.

Sylvia married the sweatshop factory owner, who preys on his women
factory workers, for his money and watched him grow more prosperous by
profiteering from WW1. Now her entire family puts the bite on her nouveau
riche hubby for their economic survival, including her acerbic tongued
old-biddy aunt, Constance, Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith). She has
an amusingly nasty thing to say about every one. For all the mighty airs
she puts on she is afraid that Sir William will cut off her allowance;
while her younger brother-in-law (Tom Hollander) unsuccessfully grovels
before Sir William to get him to invest in supplying boots to the Sudanese
soldiers.

Another aristocratic leech, Freddie Nesbitt (Wilby), has married
money, but has squandered his wife’s inheritance and having no use for
her any longer now despises her. He is courting and at the same time blackmailing
Sir William’s daughter Isobel (Camilla Rutherford), in the hopes that she
will persuade Sir William to set him up for life.

It’s Constance who tells her innocent maid, Mary (Macdonald), that
Sylvia and her younger sister, Louisa (Geraldine Somerville), coldly cut
cards to determine which of the two, who come from a financially ruined
but titled family, would snag the self-made millionaire Sir William.

Sir William loves to make money and toy with his gun collection,
that is when he isn’t taking his lady servants to bed. He’s secretly having
an affair with Elsie, but it is something everyone knows and that is no
problem as long as it remains discrete. The ice cold Sylvia also has her
discrete affairs and during this party she zeroes in on the handsome bisexual
Henry Denton (Philippe), he’s posing as the valet of the discrete gay Hollywood
producer Morris Weissman (Balaban). Henry’s really an actor prepping for
his part as an English servant. When Lady Sylvia requests delivery of a
glass of warm milk at 1 a.m., at which time she promises to be “wide awake,”
Henry becomes her stud for the night. Weissman was invited to the party
because of his friendship with the British matinee idol, Ivor Novello (Northam–the
part he plays is of a real-life matinee idol of that era), who is related
to Sir William and got Sir William’s permission for the producer and his
actor friend to come along and research how the British aristocracy lives
for his next feature “Charlie Chan in London.” Ivor is along to entertain
the guests with his singing and piano playing, but makes more of an impression
on the servants than on the bored guests. One of his songs, “The Land of
Might-Have-Been,” might very well be the film’s theme.

There’s intrigue and snobbery also among the servant class, and that
is seen through the wide-open eyes of Mary. She’s guided through the houseby
the kind-hearted and truthful but dispirited Elsie (Watson).  She
is awed by the imposing authoritative butler Jennings (Bates), the gruff
head cook Mrs. Croft (Atkins), and the stern head housekeeper Mrs. Wilson
(Mirren). Mrs. Wilson at one point declares her competency by saying “I’m
the perfect servant. I have no life.” Mary’s also intrigued by Parks (Owen),
the mysterious reclusive valet for Lord Stockbridge (Dance), who when his
unknown factory mother died was placed in an orphanage.

The murder mystery might be ordinary Charlie Chan B-film fluff, but
the social satire is anything but ordinary. I felt like I was really observing
how the rich and their help live, in this richly atmospheric and textured
film. This stylish, classy, well-acted and photographed film, is an Anglophile’s
delight. It’s a merging of the world of Hollywood fantasy with the fantasy
world of the British upper-class. There’s not one wasted word or motion
in this masterpiece, a film that delivers an in-depth character study from
a clear-cut and involving story laced with multiple layers of entanglements
and too many characters to keep track of all of them; yet, all have their
moment in the sun and in the rain. And even though it is filled with the
mystery genre’s formulaic devices, it does it in a joyously energetic and
refreshing way. 

Gloria
Rated (R)
By James Sanford
The Kalamazoo Gazette

Roger Ebert has often brought up the idea that instead of rehashing
the classics, filmmakers should concentrate on revising movies that
weren't very good to begin with. Hollywood may have taken his comments
to heart.

Director Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" is a loose remake of
the unsuccessful 1964 film of the same name, and now director Sidney
Lumet has tackled "Gloria," based on a 1980 melodrama that was nothing
to shout about, but did feature a memorably flinty, Oscar-nominated
performance by Gena Rowlands.

And what are the results of these experiments? Malick's epic is
flawed but intermittently fascinating, rife with luscious
imagery. "Gloria," on the other hand, finds Sharon Stone doing her
darnedest to squeeze into Rowlands' high heels, and it doesn't take
long to see they don't become her.

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Rowlands' Gloria was a bitter ex-gangster's moll whose heart had long
ago gone into a deep-freeze. Stone's Gloria, aside from the occasional
flip remark or crude comment, turns out to be a soft-shell crab. For a
woman who's supposedly so street-seasoned, she's weirdly skittish and
sentimental.

The reason for her transformation from bad mutha to mother figure is
Nicky Nunez (Jean-Luke Figueroa), a 7-year-old whose family was been
massacred by the henchmen of Gloria's ex-boyfriend Kevin (Jeremy
Northam), minutes after Nicky's dad sent the kid off with a valuable
computer disk and a teary "you da man." For reasons never made clear,
the supposedly steely Gloria steals Nicky from Kevin's clutches and
gives him a tour of New York, all the while dodging the bad guys who
want that precious disk.

Unable to commit to being a thriller or a character study, the movie
settles for being an excitement-free drag. Lumet, whose talent peaked
25 years ago with "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network," throws in one
amazingly sloppy car chase, but otherwise does nothing to perk up the
picture's sluggish pace.

Stone's work here has two modes, shrill and mushy, and her Noo Yawk
accent quickly unravels; in one scene she's talking about having been
in jail for "twee" years, while in the next she sharply pronounces the
"h" in "therapy." Bad dialects also hobble Northam and even George
C. Scott, who turns up briefly as one of Gloria's former sugar
daddies.

If there's anything to be said in the movie's favor, it's that
"Gloria" offers a few glimmers of the natural wit Stone demonstrated
during her recent appearance on Bravo's "Inside the Actors' Studio."
After Nicky, who's shared her motel bed the night before, tells Gloria
he likes sleeping with her, Stone delivers her reply - "You're not the
first guy to tell me that" - with a smug sneer that would have made
Mae West proud. James Sanford

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Separation between Brooks and Barbara is swift: Tony feels abandoned by his father as his mother continues to smother him with her neediness. When gay walker Simon (Hugh Dancy) comes to stay, mother, son and Simon all wind up in bed together, furthering the aberrant parental relationship as it continues to be taken down unnatural paths.

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Stephen Dillane comes off well, perhaps because he’s allowed to be more true to one character. It’s not that Brooks comes completely alive here, but Dillane captures his insecurities (why is anal intercourse so often used as a shorthand for insecurities?), and is able to naturally deliver lines peculiar to Brooks’ American upper crust milieu.

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As far as classic TV shows go, "All in the Family" is total the best. The letter of Archie Bunker is readily lone of the most momentous characters in video receiver history. Stapleton´s portrayal of Edith is also a consistently good energy. Struthers and Reiner have moved on to other careers, but their acting stints on the show are worthwhile, but it is O´Connor and Stapleton who are the driving intensity of the show. "All in the Family" is soothe shown in syndication after all of these years and the television show is virtuous as risible and entertaining as it was thirty years ago.

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Instead, we get three cutesy, animated segments that show smiling, happy animals before and after their habitants have been ruined. This clearly provides the audience no information to go away with and frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if, by everybody of the matrix scenes in the skin, the audience isn’t rooting for the sake of those CGI monkeys throwing things at each other (and I quite don’t want to know what they were throwing) to fall for all to see of that tree. When the film isn’t attempting to show us environmental issues in the simplest possible manner, it’s attacking the media for focusing on oil spills and not more subtle threats to our ecosystem.



Given the kind of cutesy feel of it (we even get an animated panda perpetual some category of underground lair looking at eco-threats hither the world - yes, this is a trippy film), it’s surprising that there are some 3-D pictures that may be unnerving for kids - like a mammoth octopus, and a stories-long-legged image of describer Walter Cronkite.



The 3-D effect is clearly well-done here and mechanical credits are really the at best aspect that I appreciated. The computer sequences, while edited together speciously at incidentally and often serving little purpose, clearly were right-rendered and looked kindly in 3-D. IMAX filmmakers have been successfully merging cultivation and relief for years, providing looks at places we’ve never been and seeing creatures we may never view up-penny-pinching. This flick chooses to take us nowhere, sparsely showing us a lot of computer animation that, while technically nice, is in no way significant, nor does it really serve to make any of the points that the film is attempting to make. Simply, this is a very weak IMAX smokescreen that, for 50 minutes, not in a million years becomes involving.

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