
Turning Camus's novel into a dreary melodrama
Review created: 02/07/05
by: Stephen_Murray-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
cinematography, art direction
Cons:
screenplay, cast, direction, editing
The disappointingly dull adaptation of Albert Camus's' The Plague (1992 adapted and directed by Luis Puenzo (The Official Story, The Old Gringo) returned William Hurt and Ra l Julia to Argentina (this time,actually shot there). As in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1985), Julia was again better, and this time was more flamboyant than Hurt. Hurt played an affectless but dedicated doctor (named Bernard Rieux, but with no attempt to seem French) fighting an outbreak of bubonic plague (updated to 199_ and relocated from Algeria to a generic South American city that is still called Oran), Julia a...
Review ID: 10000000000362835

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