I have read up on the source material and it seems topical and intriguing. Also, what a great young cast! Can't wait to see Jessica Brown-Findlay in her first modern day role since Albatross.
Also, Lone Scherfig is a great director. I loved "An Education". I hope this finds distribution here in the US, but I will see it somehow.
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I love Dormer too. And I think she will shine in this role. You won't be disappointed.
shareI'm excited as well, I think the whole cast seem pretty good and I loved the play.
shareI've never seen Booth or Claflin in anything (didn't watch the second Hunger Games film), but I've seen all the other main actors and they're solid. I've only seen Irons briefly in The White Queen. The jury's out on him for me but he comes across pretty well in the trailer.
Dormer, Grainger and Brown-Findlay are all great. I'm very familiar with all of them from their TV series and a couple of films.
I saw Booth in BBC's Great Expectations (made for the Dickens Bicentennial) shown on PBS' Masterpiece Classic a couple of years ago. I've never liked GE (plus, it's been done too many times), but I watched it for Gillian Anderson's portrayal of Miss Havisham. I don't really remember much about Booth's performance.
shareI wouldn't say I was excited for this, but there was a certain type of intrigue there, one that comes with an idea so repugnant that you're not quite how they can make a film of it because there doesn't seem to be any redeemable characters for us to get behind.
Miles was in a way, he was portrayed as a good guy that was dragged into a bad situation as opposed to all the others just being dicks who felt they were entitled to be dicks. And of course Lauren was designed to be our 'in' to the film, a polar opposite of everyone else.
Max Irons was the one getting all the praise and I think that because he was playing the 'good' guy helps that, the fact that his character allowed him to perform a more subtle performance did too.
I'd give more of my praise to Sam Claflin, and I believe that has more to do with the fact that unlike the OP, I had seen him in other things. But things like the 4th 'Pirates of the Caribbean' film and the 2nd 'Hunger Games', they were big budget films that didn't allow him to actually give a performance. But this allowed him to show his acting ability a lot more and I'm now actually interested in seeing him do other things because of it.
"God, when I meet you, I'm gonna be pretty. If it's the last thing I do. I'll be a beautiful angel."
This is one of the vilest movies I have ever seen. The thing is though, I don't know if I feel that way because it's a great movie about the vilest people ever or a truly vile movie.
shareIt's a good movie about the vilest æššħőłęŝ ever. When æššħőłęŝ like these are running (or is ruining?) a country, it's time for a revolution.
~~Bayowolf
There's a difference between being frank... and being dick.