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Solomon and Gaenor
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and a scene of violence
Starring
Ioan Gruffudd,
Nia Roberts,
Sue Jones-Davies,
and
William Thomas
Set in the Welsh Valleys around 1911, Solomon & Gaenor tells the moving and ultimately tragic story of the love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Paul Morrisson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Paul Morrisson
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 30, 2001
Video: January 30, 2001
Theatrical: August 25, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English, Welsh and Yiddish (with English subtitles) |

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83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Its pleasures aren't so much in the inevitable plot complications, but in the passion of the performances and the spare beauty of the elegant framing and photography.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Told so simply and powerfully that it seems to carry echoes of earlier, timeless tales.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
With Solomon & Gaenor, it is hard to overlook the folly of the characters. Does it count as a tragedy when the characters get more or less what they were asking for?

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Nicely filmed and acted.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Does an almost dismayingly good job of conveying its characters' grim, bare-bones existence and the stultifying sexual and religious taboos that the lovers flout.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It doesn't lack for emotional intensity or persuasive, three-dimensional characters.

70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
A graceful, understated sense of period allows the behavior of the characters in this love story to be unusually nuanced, making their experiences seem uncontrived as well as archetypal.

63
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Has a melodramatic glow.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.

63
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The film is in the key of "Romeo and Juliet," and it's a one-note tune.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The performances are uniformly excellent.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Well-meaning portrait of intolerance concludes as grand tragic melodrama, executed with a stately beauty in somber colors.

56
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Feels repetitive and impacted.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.

50
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place.

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Although Morrison's drama feels increasingly forced and manipulative as the movie rolls along, the movie is competent if painfully predictable.

50
Film.com
Jared Rapfogel
There's nothing terribly wrong with the movie, but nothing terribly right about it either.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Tepid tale of star-crossed lovers in 1910 Wales.

30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Paul Morrison's relentlessly unsurprising staging of a "Romeo and Juliet" story fetishizes its accelerating tragedies with morbid solemnity.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape.


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