Blithe Spirit (2020)
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years. (imdb)
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed By: Edward Hall
Written By: Noël Coward, Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard
Starring: Judi Dench, Leslie Mann, Emilia Fox, Isla Fisher, Dan Stevens
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1. Adapted from a play/based on a play (public: moderated by djross - 13 stars)
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| Mar 01 |  |
amazedemon | 49 4% |
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I like the cast of Blithe Spirit, but the film remains an unfunny slog that drags through its 95 minutes. I was barely invested in or entertained by the bourgeoisie characters. Mann delivers the only amusing interlude acting out the finale of her widower's screenplay. Fisher is mediocre. Dench is at least moving up from Cats. Rather than being an edgy comedy of tragedy, this film spent its efforts on revising the original play to make the wives seem "empowered" at the expense of quality.
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| Feb 24 |  |
REdotcom | 10 10% |
| Feb 20 | filmcricket | 30 10% |
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| Feb 10 |  |
Gymnopedie | 70 59% |
| Feb 04 |  |
thegreyfox | 60 29% |
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Whilst undoubtedly nice to look at, with Surrey looking very glamourous, this was a bit of a lame duck. The whole point of Blithe Spirit was to counterpoint the "farce" with impending tragedy (however soft that tragedy might be) but in this version, the only impending threat was a bit of knife throwing (which was, admittedly, the best bit of the film). I am not sure the "roaring 40's" translates very well to modern times, as it now looks more like a cliche, than it does a period of recent histor
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| Feb 04 |  |
MetaCritic2 | 20 2% |
| Jan 23 |  |
Trash Puppet | 7 48% |
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