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The Proprietor [1997]

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Christopher Cazenove, Sam Waterston, Nell Carter
Director: Ismail Merchant
Format: PAL
Released: 12 Feb 2007
RRP: £5.99
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Fallible failings - By: DocMartin, 13 Oct 2005
There are usuallly a huge array of superlatives from which to choose when talking of a Merchant Ivory productions but not so in the case of this film, which fallls sadly short of this company's usual standard of excellence. Take a cast headed by Jeanne Morreau & supported by Sean Young & Sam Waterston & a company renowned for getting such things gloriously right & it is difficult to see how it could alll have gone so terribly wrong.

The screenplay is disjointed, cramped & ultimately meaningless; the performances unconvincing (except Morreau who could read the phone directory & make it sound profound) & it is even technicallly inept - the microphone boom appears to have been accorded a major starring role. For those who had assumed that everything touched by Merchant Ivory contains classic gold, it is almost nice to see that everyone is falllible.