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This Masterpiece Theatre-funded docudrama about Queen Victoria's unusually close "friendship" with her Scottish manservant is said to reflect both the virtues and flaws of the PBS TV series: strong performances from actors little known in the United States (Antony Sher, Judi Dench, and Billy Connolly), but also a cloying pretentiousness and "decorousness" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). The movie "often feels pat and resolutely performed for the camera, scene by scene," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
And are Kinsky's rippling, Philip Glass-like progressions meant to suggest profundity or empty pretentiousness?
They invite the charges of pretentiousness by calling themselves arbiters of "taste" and "highbrow."
Even a "semi-spontaneous tribute to Muhammad Ali couldn't rescue the festivities," says Brian Lowry of the Los Angeles Times . Redeeming features included the return of master of ceremonies Billy Crystal and his "repeated relief from the pretentiousness of presenters" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ); Jessica Yu's crack that her evening's outfit cost more than her Oscar-winning documentary; and David Helfgott's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee . (See "The Week/The Spin" for more on the results.)
As her husband, William Hurt is an expert at appearing to think deep thoughts, but the character's groggy pretentiousness and the actor's merge uncomfortably.