Me and Orson Wells (2.5/5)
Barracks Cinema, Brisbane
11 August 2010
Director: Richard Linklater. Cast: Zac Efron (Richard Samuels), Christian McKay (Orson Welles), Claire Danes (Sonja Jones)
Young man dragged off the street to play Lucius in Well’s Julius Caesar falls for one of Orson’s girls, inevitably has his heart broken on opening-night. The final reel of genuine Shakespeare almost makes the preceding sentimental, if high-paced, love story bearable. Against the power of the Bard the film script is a barely adequate pastiche of theatrical histrionics and innocent love. How Well’s staged Julius Caesar, now that would have made a good film.
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