Review of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) by Daryl G — 21 Mar 2007

If, as I did, you were uneducated and your first introduction to Geoffrey Rush was in Pirates Of The Carribean, then check this out to see how good an actor he really is.

"People ask me why do I keep compromising my artistic integrity by walking in front of Blake's cameras. Do you know what I tell them? Money.".

Peter Sellers, widely known as the Pink Panther, and for playing a multitude of characters in Kurbick's Dr Strangelove, was a deeply disturbed man, overwraught with insecurity and neediness, and Rush captures all of these elements perfectly. Looking at the events in his life thorugh the eyes of the people around him, Sellers attitude is that everybody was really on his side and that he could do no wrong in their view. With great support from John Lithgow as Blake Edwards and Charlize Thero, as Britt Ekland, as well as Emily Watson playing his long-suffering wife, this film is a success. Although very dark and in some areas painting Sellers as a lunatic who didn't care for anyone but himself, there is no doubt that Rush's portrayal of the scenes we all know and love from Sellers work, proves he was the only choice to play this brilliant English clown.