An uniterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.... (Full plot summary below)
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An uniterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
Leave your thoughts about Vanya on 42nd Street.
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonI've never really seen anything like Vanya on 42nd Street. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseA deeply moving, inspirational secular-sacred experience both for its beautiful embodiment of Chekhov's story of unmoored souls and for the beauty of the greatest collaborative art form, practiced with pure joy and for love. [Blu-ray] |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickThe alchemy of Gregory's staging and Malle's direction turn what could have been an exercise in canned theater into something very nearly sublime. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA film which reduces Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" to its bare elements: loneliness, wasted lives, romantic hope and despair. To add elaborate sets, costumes and locations to this material would only dilute it. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesIt is not a happy movie, but it is a very thought provoking one. |
| Turner Classic Movies OnlineSean Axmaker... a record of a creative collaboration that has a life of its own, at once documentary, filmed rehearsal, play within a play, and private production restaged for a camera... |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA lovely, intimate rethinking of Anton Chekhov's Russian classic Uncle Vanya. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperAmore traditional performance with the same actors would have gotten a higher rating. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe performances here are all knockouts, with a perfect ensemble cast, and Malle, using subtle moviemaking technique, keeps things moving so that we hardly realize we are stagebound for nearly two hours. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonIn terms of dramatic action, almost nothing happens, and yet Malle's fluid, invisible style carries us deep into the hearts and minds of these characters. |
