Under Milk Wood (2015 film)

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Under Milk Wood
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKevin Allen
Written byKevin Allen
Dylan Thomas
StarringRhys Ifans
Release dates
  • 20 June 2015 (2015-06-20) (EIFF)
  • 30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) (UK)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesWelsh
English

Under Milk Wood (

Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards
but not nominated.

Cast

Production

This was the first feature adaptation of the play since the

Oscars.[1][3][4][5]

The film premiered simultaneously in Cardiff and Theatr Gwaun in the Pembrokeshire town of Fishguard, before being shown around Wales in December 2014 as part of the centenary celebrations of Thomas's birth.[6] It received its official UK premiere in June 2015 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[7]

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 33% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10.[8]

The Independent in its review of the film says it "shows tremendous visual imagination in places and has plenty of ghoulishness, scabrous humour and eroticism along the way" and "doesn't hold back on depicting the grotesquerie of the Wales that Dylan Thomas evoked".[9] Rhys Ifans' "delivery is calmer and more measured than Burton's mercurial, intensely dramatic rendition" and just about holds together the "dozens of surrealistic tableau-like scenes". It gives the film three out of five stars.[9]

The Daily Mirror also gave the film three out of five stars, though describing it as a "noble failure" where the director "deploys no end of visual tricks to match Thomas’s lyricism – a glaring palette, soft focusing and even a camera seemingly mounted on the back of a mouse – but the tricks distract as much as they divert".[10]

Variety magazine pointed out the humour of the original play had not aged well, the performances of the cast were "obscured by the film’s florid visual style and fruity versification", while the Welsh cast and Welsh language version would have "limited appeal outside Wales" and "minor status as a local curiosity".[11]

Screen Daily described the film as a "sticky mess of sexual urges and intrigue, ...which clouds Thomas’ work rather than clarifies it" with the visual component "frequently distracting and sometimes outright unpleasant".[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Jones, Hannah (11 October 2015). "The Welsh film based on Under Milk Wood going for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars". Wales Online. Media Wales. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Solva taken over for Under Milkwood filming". BBC News. BBC. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Under Milk Wood: Rhys Ifans calls film a 'joyous tirade'". BBC News. BBC. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  4. ^ Kojen, Natalie (8 October 2015). "81 Countries In Competition For 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar". Oscars. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Under Milk Wood entered for Best Foreign Language Oscar". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 10 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  6. Tindle Newspaper Group
    . Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. ^ a b Ide, Wendy (27 October 2015). "'Under Milk Wood': Review". Screen Daily. Screen International. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Under Milk Wood (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  9. ^ a b Macnab, Geoffrey (29 October 2015). "Under Milk Wood, film review: Snobbery and spanking in rural Wales". The Independent. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  10. ^ Edwards, David (30 October 2015). "Under Milk Wood - review: Audacious adaptation of Dylan Thomas classic is a noble failure". Daily Mirror. Mirror Group Newspapers. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  11. Penske Business Media
    . Retrieved 28 May 2018.

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