Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker — 30 Jan 2008
The whole work drips with a camp savagery (hence the presence of Sacha Baron Cohen as Pirelli, a rival barber and faux-Italianate fop), which in turn relies on the conviction that death itself, like sexual desire, exists to be sniffed at and chuckled over.
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This review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) was written by Anthony Lane and published by The New Yorker on 30 Jan 2008.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has generally received very positive reviews.
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