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Sunshine (1999)
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Although Sunshine was made by a Hungarian, István Szabó, and deals with the history of Hungary as refracted through three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family, you might be more inclined to give it three hours of your own life if you approach it as a David Lean movie in spirit. It is an English-language picture, and Maurice Jarre's music recalls his score for Doctor Zhivago. Szabó emulates Lean's intimate-epic style of merging the sweep of history with the crystalline detailing of individual lives, so that the shape of destiny is glimpsed through personal moments that feel at once evanescent and...
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| Sunshine Movie Review by Jesse (12/16/2006) |
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This 3-hour epic is probably one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. It tells the story of a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations. Ralph Fiennes plays three characters in this film (Ignatz Sonnenschein, his son Adam Sors, and his grandson Ivan Sors) and even though I didn't quite like that...
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