A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.... (Full plot summary below)
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A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
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| Toronto StarRichard OuzounianThe oddly unheroic Shawn is somehow perfect as Solness, a flawed contemporary man who feels his genius entitles him to run roughshod over those he loves as well as those he works with. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelEnthralling deflation of archetypal egotistical artist, with delicious irony from his perspective. . .Urgent hand-held intimacy, 360-degree close-ups dispense stagey feel. |
| Film Comment MagazineJonathan RomneyFilmed theater? Absolutely, but also, to my complete surprise, something else again. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseGregory (credited as having 'created for the stage' this version), Shawn (the translator/adaptor), and Demme (the director) nobly pursue their solid, usually convincing, but rarely exceptional concept for a manifestly challenging symbolist play. [Blu-ray] |
| Spectrum CulturePat Padua[Jonathan] Demme sadly recognizes that the creative urge can't be extricated from sexual urges. Yet in the end, the performances are stronger than the film that contains them, as if art cannot come to grips with this conundrum. |
| The Retro SetNathanael HoodHagerty and Joyce are revelations; the beating hearts of the film. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's the type of symbolic, neurotic, psychologically exhausting film Alvy Singer and Annie Hall would gladly spend hours waiting in line to see. |
| Paste MagazineAndy CrumpShawn's passion for the material shows through even when the film is at its most tautological. This is a movie crafted with care from top to bottom. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohA personal project which should have stayed personal, this turgid yet flat Ibsen adaptation is third-time unlucky for Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory. |
| Entertainment WeeklyJason ClarkIt doesn't attain the highs of Shawn and Gregory's My Dinner With Andre, but the movie has a jittery intimacy that is appealing. |
