Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Vonia Evita (1996) Director: Alan Parker Watched: 6/20/18 Rating: 7/10 {Clue: "Don't Cry for Me ____"} At more than two hours definitely needs some extra work in the cutting room, Ranges too much in mood and tone- from tragic to comedic to romantic to melodramatic, Gorgeous costumes and set design accompanied by naggingly catchy but lovable songs, Enthusiastically sung "everyman" Greek chorus by a comical-cynical-combative Antonio Banderas, Narrative style ingeniously allows for dual political views in a fun and melodious manner (though unfairly slanted towards the anti-Peronist), Takes Evita's negative personality traits and disproportionately magnifies them- we see an icon rather than the woman, Impersonal performance by a convincing looking Madonna- but was that not Eva María Duarte de Perón in real life: powerfully inaccessible? Not historically accurate in its details- but further research reveals only more mystery and myth, And now most of the world has learned about a woman it would not have otherwise! ---- Acrostic is a form of poetry where the first letters in each line, paragraph, or word are doubly used to spell a name, phrase, or word. The word "acrostic" comes from the Greek words "akros" (outermost) and "stichos" (line of verse). Read the appropriate letters in the poem vertically to reveal the extra message, called the "acrostich"! #Acrostic #PoemReview #Controversy #GoldenGlobesBestPicture #Musical #StageToScreen

chaswe-28402 Madonna gives it her all, and the tunes are definitely memorable and widely well-covered. The direction is interesting. Were some of those scenes taken from real life documentary news-films ? The fairly low site rating puzzles me a little, but for some reason I don't think it deserves 8 stars. Can't really say why. Perhaps it was the vacuity of the plot, politics-wise. There was no real explanation of Evita's political significance. She just went around singing and being charismatic and adored. I couldn't quite see what she'd done to deserve all this adoration. Then she died.This film reminds me of another, plot and politics-wise. This was a film modelled on Huey Long, which I found equally puzzling. The Huey character went around waving his arms about, instead of singing, but the politics were just as vague as in Evita. Sean Penn was the actor, who got murdered in the story, and I suppose it is merely a coincidence that he was the sometime husband of Madonna.

Jackson Booth-Millard I had seen the film poster and had known the three leading stars for years, and I knew one of the songs featuring, I was hoping it would be good, based on the hit Broadway musical by Lord Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice, directed by Golden Globe nominated Alan Parker (Bugsy Malone). Basically the film tells the story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Perón (Golden Globe winning Madonna), as told by storyteller Ché (Golden Globe nominated Antonio Banderas) (named after Ché Guevara), who acts as the view for both the people of the rural community and high society. Young Eva (María Luján Hidalgo) started life in poverty as the daughter of a farmer, but as a teenager she got attached to Latin singer Agustín Magaldi ("Ain't No Doubt" singer Jimmy Nail) and accompanied him to the big city, Buenos Aires, there she rose from being a poor rural girl to being an aspiring actress. Eva becomes more famous through film and radio, eventually moving moving into influential circles within Buenos Aires society, her name soon becomes linked to rising politician Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce), this quickly creates interest, and soon after marrying Perón is elected President, with the inspirational Eva by his side. As First Lady and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina, Eva attracts attention like no other woman before or since, hypnotising eighteen million people for seven years with her huge political influence and constant charity work, gaining adoration and love from workers and (Spanish) liberals, but disdain and fear from the military and upper classes. This public and political interest, both positive and negative, being the most hated and the most beloved woman of Argentina, continued until the untimely death of Eva, passing away from cancer at the age of 33, nearly three million people attended the funeral in the streets of Buenos Aires. Also starring Victoria Sus as Doña Juana, Julian Littman as Brother Juan, Olga Merediz as Blanca, Laura Pallas as Elisa Duarte, Julia Worsley as Erminda, Andrea Corr as Perón's Mistress and Peter Polycarpou as Domingo Mercante. With Desparetely Seeking Susan (perhaps Dick Tracy and A League of Their Own also), this is the only enjoyable performance by the "Queen of Pop", the less said about Body of Evidence, Die Another Day (apart from her song) and Swept Away the better, Madonna is very good as she goes through all the triumphs and traumas of the First Lady of Argentina. Pryce as the up and coming President and Banderas as the everyman revolutionary get their moments, but Madonna and most of the songs are the big hook to the film, the best song for me being "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", it does get slightly tedious with hardly any dialogue and mostly all singing, the story of a girl going from nothing to something is alright, and the political stuff didn't grab me, overall it's not a bad musical biography. It won the Oscar for Best Song for "You Must Love Me" (it also won the Golden Globe), and it was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Sound and Best Film Editing, and it was nominated the BAFTAs for the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for Lloyd Webber and Rice, Best Adapted Screenplay for Alan Parker and Oliver Stone, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Make Up/Hair. Worth watching!

wes-connors The life story of "Evita" as portrayed by pop singer Madonna and directed by Alan Parker. For someone knowing very little about the subject, this film is a quite a chore to sit through. It's over two hours long, without much plot, and we begins with the elaborate funeral of its lead character. Since the subject, Eva Duarte, was evidently engaging, and played by another fascinating woman, the film is disappointing. In one scene, she gives away money by throwing it at people. The material girl's jewels and wardrobe must be worth millions...Lost is why so many remember Evita, but forget Michael J. Brody Jr....The story is told in operatic fashion. Yet, it is not a traditional opera, or musical - it is like a silent film in color, with dubbed songs and a synchronized sound effects track. In lieu of title cards, handsome Antonio Banderas (as Che) sings about the woman he professes to dislike, but we know he really loves. The dubbing works best with Madonna, who is quite convincing in her "sing acting" - especially on the film's best song, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" (a great one, composed by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber), but the melding of music and motion picture is otherwise mechanical. The film lacks heart.***** Evita (12/14/96) Alan Parker ~ Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail