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Onegin
Samuel Goldwyn Films
MPAA RATING: R for brief violence and a sexual image
Starring
Ralph Fiennes,
Liv Tyler,
Toby Stephens,
Lena Headey,
and
Martin Donovan
Director Martha Fiennes explores the theme of unrequited love in this drama based on Aleksandr Pushkin's verse novel. Eugene Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), an 1820s Saint Petersberg aristocrat is introduced to the young and passionate Tatiana (Tyler) who falls in love with him and is intially refused.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Peter Ettedgui
Michael Ignattief
Alexander Pushkin (poem)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Martha Fiennes
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 11, 2000
Video: July 11, 2000
Theatrical: December 17, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

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90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A pleasure in all ways.

90
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Few things are more enthralling than unrequited love, as demonstrated by this drama.

80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
A deliciously romantic story, in all senses of the word.

80
Time
Richard Schickel
Handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
A riveting, unsentimental tragedy of unrequited love.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The pace slackens a little after the first hour, but the photography by Remi Adefarasin and music by Magnus Fiennes keep the emotion stoked.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Hot-blooded.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Fiennes does this sort of inner pain thing exceedingly well, Tyler is beguiling and believable, and there is an edge of wit and grace to the proceedings.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
(Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A handsome, somewhat draggy and abrupt film that's more memorable in snippets than as a whole.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There is a cool, mannered elegance to the picture that I like, but it's dead at its center.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.

60
Film.com
Robert Horton
(Tyler's) voice is still mall American, and Onegin's rejection of her is nowhere near as puzzling or as tragic as it's supposed to be.

50
Austin Chronicle
Editor
A sumptuous yet unexceptional story.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Overall, this is the kind of thing that gives literary adaptations their bad name.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Would have been a stronger movie if it didn't require a strong cup of coffee going in.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.

20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.


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