Review of Doctor Zhivago (1965) by Richard Round for The Guardian — 30 Oct 1971
Even granting the enormous difficulty of adapting such a long and complex book, I do not see how a worse job could have been done. Jack–rabbiting along in fits and starts, it gives one the feeling that the book has been arbitrarily chopped up into an irrelevant series of scenes, attempting an unsuccessful compromise between intimacy and the epic.
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This review of Doctor Zhivago (1965) was written by Richard Round and published by The Guardian on 30 Oct 1971.
Doctor Zhivago has generally received very positive reviews.
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