Directed by:
Kevin ReynoldsScreenplay:
Dean GeorgarisCinematography:
Artur ReinhartComposer:
Anne DudleyCast:
Sophia Myles, James Franco, Hans-Martin Stier, Rufus Sewell, Leo Gregory, Bronagh Gallagher, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Lucy Russell, Barbora Kodetová (more)VOD (3)
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After the fall of Rome, visionary warlord Marke (Rufus Sewell) seeks to unite the squabbling English tribes to form one strong nation and defeat brutal Irish King Donnchadh. But when Lord Marke’s greatest and most loyal knight, Tristan (James Franco), falls in love with Isolde (Sophia Myles), a beautiful Irish woman, it threatens to destroy the fragile truce and ignite a war. (official distributor synopsis)
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Tristan and Isolda serves its purpose perfectly. This picture is romantic enough for your more delicate half to quiver with delight and action-historical enough for us to quiver with delight too ;-). Franco as Tristan is a nice enough guy for you to root for him and Sophia Miles is beautiful enough for it to be believable that a guy like James Franco would fall for her ;-). The Czech Republic locations don’t look very British, but that doesn’t spoil things much. More like I was disappointed that us Czechs can’t make a good, similarly toned movie. We have the people, we have the landscapes. Where’s the problem?
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On the wings of a surprisingly diverse soundtrack, the immortal story begins very slowly, but its fatefulness, the perfect chemistry between James Franco and Sophia Myles, and the charisma of the positively acclaimed Rufus Sewell are enough for an unexpectedly strong spectacle. Kevin Reynolds has easily overcome his own shadow.
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A solid average which proves that Reynolds still knows how to make a movie. But if the Scott brothers invested a little more (and if one of them had filmed the thing), it could have turned out somewhat better. The screenplay lacks any mythological elements and attempts to give a realistic perspective. Which is all very nice, but not completely appropriate, because as a result the whole Tristan and Isolde story ends up swimming in the dime-a-dozen waters of something we have seen a hundred times over.
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Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Tristan and Isolde. But perhaps in this execution, it's not as interesting as one would like. A nice romance set against the backdrop of historical events, with a bit of the atmosphere of Arthurian England, as well as stories from Norse legends. But the romance didn't grab me, and I wasn't impressed with the historical background either.
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