I sincerely apologise for the length of this.
Its a film review of "Le Docteur Jivago". I've translated the first two paragraphs but i am wondering if anybody could translate these three ?
Many thanks (again, i apologise for the length and also for some of the words.)
It is truly impossible not to fall in love with the film. The acting is superb, the music heavenly, the costumes fit for gods and goddesses and the scenery for a landscape painting!
But most of all, Zhivago is a classic love story, a Romeo and Juliet adaption with a Slavic twist: the two protagonists (in this case: Yuri Zhivago and Lara Antipova) do not meet until two hours into the film (along World War 1's Eastern front, away from prying eyes) and their romance never seems to be fully on track. Set in an era of political unrest, director David Lean shows to the audience that not only Russia was experiencing war and political uncertainty, but that Russia's young were also facing revolution and unrest. Staying faithful to the novel on which it is based, the film never strays from the plot and even the minor details (with some exceptions, of course) remain identical.
It is truly impossible not to fall in love with the film. The acting is superb, the music heavenly, the costumes fit for gods and goddesses and the scenery for a landscape painting!
Zhivago is written from the point of view of Yevgraf Zhivago (Yuri’s brother).The whole story is told from his point of view, his opinion and his version of history, based on the facts which he has uncovered. He meets the distraught daughter of Yuri and Lara who lost both her parents by age 8 and ending up running into Yevgraf while working on a dam. Although not in any scenes with Yuri or Lara, the role of Tonya is acted with purpose, to provide a start base for the story. The cast work together as an ensemble. But Tom Courtney's portrayal as young innocent Pasha into his transformation to dreaded strongman of the Steppes, Strelnikov, over shadows Omar Sharif's portrayal as the tragic hero Zhivago. In the female department, Julie Christie's role of Lara showcases her true acting talents (even at such a young age) and her portrayal shows pure emotion and love. But my favorite performance: that of world renowned, womanizer Komarovsky played by the only American in the picture, Rod Steiger. I shouldn't be attracted to his performance. I should feel repulsed. He brutally rapes Lara at the same time of dating her mother, tries to break up her and Pasha, conceals her and Yuri over to the Bolsheviks and runs off to Mongolia with a pregnant Lara and her daughter Katya, leaving Yuri behind. The liking to Komarovsky is Lean's only failure in the film. A villain turns, for me at least, into a hero when he attempts to help Lara and Yuri run away but is met with only stern rejection.