Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Genre: Music / Drama
Duration: 160 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner and Timothy Spall
IMDb score:
7,3 (14.255)
Releasedate: 15 December 1999
Topsy-Turvy plot
"Gilbert & Sullivan & So Much More"
In 1884 the musical writers Gilbert and Sullivan failed to impress the London audience with their last production Princess Ida. Sullivan decides to focus on the serious musicals, but he is still under contract and has yet to produce an opera with Gilbert. Sullivan visits a Japanese exhibition. Here he gains the necessary inspiration and decides to write Mikado. This is going to be one of their most popular productions.
Actors and actresses
W. S. Gilbert
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Lucy Gilbert
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Helen Lenoir
Durward Lely (Nanki-Poo)
Leonora Braham (Yum-Yum)
Jessie Bond
George Grossmith
Reviews & comments
Vinokourov
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- 3143 messages
- 2909 votes
Topsy-Turvy is a film about two writers struggling to compose a Japanese-style opera. All of this takes place in a late nineteenth-century Victorian setting. The film itself is also laborious, as it's very long and I found it uninteresting. The operatic sections were, at least, not too bad, although this genre always remains irritating.
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Shadowed
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- 11557 messages
- 6803 votes
A bizarrely drawn-out drama film with consistently unfriendly, unsympathetic characters that you, as a viewer, have to endure for 160 minutes. Topsy-Turvy is far too long for the limited content it operates on, despite the excellent performances of almost all the cast members, who hold their own in their complex roles. Director Mike Leigh's approach is remarkably static, preventing fans from visually engaging with the theatrical performances. The camerawork, the angles, and sometimes even the sets make little impression, but thankfully, the performance of the Mikado himself is still magnificent. It's admirable to see that some actors can actually handle themselves quite well within the opera world and seem to actually perform numbers, but the story sometimes seems endless. Jim Broadbent's well-acted, yet very detached, performance reinforces this feeling.
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