Review of Cleopatra (1963) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 16 Dec 1976
Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra is put together of the stuff of legend that the director experienced as personal reality, and he filmed the story as if he had been there. The film may be as close as Hollywood gets, outside the realm of Orson Welles, to a cinematic simulacrum of Shakespeare, less in its lucidly incisive, rhetorically reserved images than in its blend of coruscating language, rowdy comedy, and grand yet urgent and intimate performances.
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This review of Cleopatra (1963) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 16 Dec 1976.
Cleopatra has generally received positive reviews.
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