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Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.
"[L]ike Beckett written for soap opera," says Lyons; its "sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose" seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon.
Friel and West, a couple of able Brits, actually know how to speak verse, although Bale is more at home in naturalistic parts.
Closely based on Brian Friel's play, it wilts in translation the way Friel's potent but static dramas always do.
It's probably because the director, Pat O'Connor, can't tell the difference between images that express Friel's themes and Hibernian wallpaper, and because his idea of expansive, pictorial beauty proves no substitute for Friel's powerfully compressed stage pictures.