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Undercooked script mars Sam Mendes’ racially themed romantic drama. Film review by Graham Fuller
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Undercooked script mars Sam Mendes’ racially themed romantic drama. Film review by Graham Fuller
Sam Mendes assembled most of the ingredients necessary to make Empire of Light a wrenching English melodrama with a potent social theme. The stars are Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Micheal Ward, and Toby Jones. Mendes teamed with his usual cinematographer Roger Deakins, whose elegant panoramic images lend a grandeur to Margate’s faded glory. The town’s art deco Dreamland Cinema provided the main location of a movie admirably modest in scale.
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