Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Jakoba
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
ericbikeco
I love period movies. Sense and Sensibility? One of my favorites. This was an exceptionally horrible production that stills-6 reviewed in a way I cannot top. Maybe the story was good, but this was so bad I won't even find out if Eliot wrote a good story and these clowns botched it. Anyone that gave this 8 stars had to be stoned or drunk.And now IMDb tells me my review isn't long enough, so I will have to rehash previously commented issues instead of providing a succinct "avoid this movie" warning: it's like they filmed the pile of storyboards and forgot to fill in the actual story. Not sure if this is a spoiler, but I sat for an hour and all if a sudden Whatsits is in love with Maggie? Huh? Maybe I don't get 1820 (supposedly), but he saw her across a room three times and they're off on a boat to go to Whoknowswhere for some reason that seems to be "the BBC didn't want a movie longer than 2 hours".
notmicro
Its kind of like walking on a sandy beach, and finding a partially-buried skeleton of some animal. Some of the jumbled bones are sticking up here and there, but there's no meat on them. The book requires a much longer mini-series to do it any justice. Most of the action will be completely incomprehensible to anyone without a general understanding of the social history of the time. The production wastes an amazing amount of time on arty underwater shots.
stills-6
Great locations, beautiful shots, good if not impressive acting (except for the exceptional Watson). The only thing this movie suffers from is the story itself. The script necessarily pares down the story to its essence - but a good deal is lost in the translation. George Eliot's intelligence has been all but wrung out in favor of a questionable love story between Maggie and her brother Tom.This is the kind of production that takes the points of the plot and hits you with them scene by scene - bang bang bang. At the beginning, we are promised a truly artistic treatment with shots of the mill itself and the beautiful English countryside. But by the end we are bombarded with events without reflection and character motivations that are baffling. It's like watching someone write a sentence out on lined paper - realizing that there won't be room to fit it all on one line, the letters get smashed together towards the end so there is no punctuation, no style, and no white space at all.
tbright
Engaging, set in a historically rich time, Mill on the Floss (1997) is a memorable walk with thoroughly human characters. As it unfolds amid much background detail, the story becomes somewhat more real than simply an exercise in the willing suspension of disbelief. The film is somewhat kinder to today's viewer than the original novel, with sensible variations well integrated. We need schooling in ethical mechanics for dealing with our own life choices, and this fine film offers an agreeable way
