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Aro Recommended Importance of Being Earnest, The

 

UK 2002, 90 minutes
Dir. Oliver Parker
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Comedy

Topics: Period - 1800s, Stageplay.

Feat. Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O’Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Tom Wilkinson

 

Aroview: Second bite of the Oscar Wilde cherry by the director of AN IDEAL HUSBAND transcribes Wilde’s most delectable drawing-room farce with perfect pitch by a hand-picked Trans-Atlantic cast.

Though slightly padded with fantasy sequences, flashbacks and chase scenes, the film-makers take pains to preserve the text, filled with melt-in-the-mouth epigrams, which winkingly focuses on a pair of bachelor dandies (Rupert Everett and Colin Firth) juggling double identities...

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • cast and/or crew interviews
  • English subtitles for the hearing impaired
  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • aspect ratio: 2.35:1
 

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