Review of Merlin

Merlin (1998)
9/10
Mabs Voice: a Richardson speciality
2 March 2007
An entertaining and idiosyncratic adaption of the fable.

I thought though I would enter this information about this movie into the record while I still remember it.

At the time of the film's first showing on British television, the Guardian's TV critic described Marianda Richardson's Queen Mab as a cross between "Siouxsie Sioux and the Grim Reaper".

Richardson herself said she wanted to project menace through her voice while keeping her volume down to almost a whisper; a cold rasp in fact, like a poorly oiled door hinge.

Whatever it was, her portrayal was wonderful to behold and altogether priceless.
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