Before and during the French revolution, political violence brings strife to a small family and a lawyer.
I was so looking forward to this. This is one of the few Dicken's books I haven't seen an adaptation. This is considered the best version of this tale and I was bored to tears, struggling to make it through the two hours plus runtime.
It's very dry with little cause to have sympathy for the characters and their situations. I've never read the book and I thought as rushed as the film was maybe it was a thousand page epic but one edition is about 300 pages. We're never shown how the characters get attached to one another. We're just told.
One bright spot among the performances is Isabel Jewell, who displays such emotion in her brief scenes the others neglect in the whole movie.
Just an overly dramatic unmoving film.
I was so looking forward to this. This is one of the few Dicken's books I haven't seen an adaptation. This is considered the best version of this tale and I was bored to tears, struggling to make it through the two hours plus runtime.
It's very dry with little cause to have sympathy for the characters and their situations. I've never read the book and I thought as rushed as the film was maybe it was a thousand page epic but one edition is about 300 pages. We're never shown how the characters get attached to one another. We're just told.
One bright spot among the performances is Isabel Jewell, who displays such emotion in her brief scenes the others neglect in the whole movie.
Just an overly dramatic unmoving film.