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--Amusingly named British social scientist J. Mallory Wober assesses his country's reaction to the late Princess Di on her two year deathaversary.
It is an amusingly petty domestic drama, enacted every morning at 9.
The critics gripe a bit but still give a standing ovation to Mike Leigh's ( Secrets and Lies ) new film, about a short span in the lives and work of Gilbert and Sullivan as they compose and stage The Mikado . "Only a lunatic would call Topsy-Turvy , with its lame first hour and host of loose ends, a masterpiece, but by the finale I was ready to have myself committed" (David Edelstein, Slate ). It's "one of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as Shakespeare in Love did last year," and it "vigorously and amusingly explore[s] what it means for an artist to renew his energies by returning to square one" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Several note its slow start and general disorganization: "[I]t teases us with the feeling that Leigh had a basic plan for the picture and never realized it" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review in
Her basic principle--the importance of "shifting our attention from our own feelings to other people's thoughts"--sounded amusingly outlandish in the wake of the let-it-all-hang-out era.
The script, a bare-bones affair with amusingly movieish period diction ("What manner of instruments are these?"