Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

jenukiah First off, one should be suspicious of a reviewer who refers to the Middle Ages as the "middle-ages." That's never a good sign. Fortunately, that person's "1" won't drag down the top scores for a solid series of adaptations of Chaucer's most famous work. (Yeah, he wrote other stuff. But I'm guessing that his "Treatise on the Astrolabe" won't be adapted anytime soon, even by someone named Lewis.) Admittedly, the 6 short films aren't all of equal quality. The Shipman and Man of Law aren't great. But the Knight and Miller are good (the Knight, especially). And The Wife of Bath more than makes up for the weaknesses of the others. It forthrightly takes up the tensions between "auctoritee" and "experience"; smuggles in the Wife's potty mouth references to the Greek gods; sublimely accounts for her gap- toothed smile; and plays straight her love for Jankyn, who is coyly renamed Jerome. (If you get that joke, you either had a great Chaucer teacher or are, in fact, a Chaucer teacher.) Read the original. Then watch Julie Walters run with it. You won't be disappointed.

Vaudevillian Veteran OK, I bought the DVD, but I didn't see all of the parts yet. I saw the Wife of Bath, the Sea Captain's Tale, The Miller's Tale and The Knight's Tale. And until now, I find them all good. There's always great acting, interesting relationships and plot twists. I have to admit that I bought the DVD because James Nesbitt was in it. But when I started watching I began to realize that not only the Miller's Tale with Nesbitt would be good. The stories of Chaucer or cleverly adapted to the screen, in a modern way and every piece has something different to tell. Yesterday I saw The Knight's Tale, and to me it's the most powerful tale. I never saw such a great story, tension, great acting, and cinematographic style pressed together in 50 minutes! I personally felt like one of the guys chasing after the same woman. While she didn't say a lot, she had something on screen, that's a strong thing to realize I think. I will show this tale to the person I love, that's for sure. See this tale, or better all of them, I think there will be more than one to have a liking for...

Psyche-8 All the adaptations of the tales in this series are good, but for me it was the Miller's Tale that was the best. A saucy, sexy story about a smooth-talking conman who breezes into town one day and turns everyone's lives upside down. James Nesbitt positively sizzles in this sexy role as the intelligent and charismatic Nick Zakian who wastes no time at all in setting about seducing the beautiful Alison Crosby (Billie Piper). Nesbitt turns in an utterly convincing performance as Nick, a man who'll stop at nothing and is prepared to stoop to any level to get what he wants - the scene where he corners Alison in the hall or the scene where he stalks across the village square towards Alison with such determination in his eyes when he knows her husband is out of the way for an hour, is enough to drive any woman wild, believe me!What the audience are supposed to construe from this tale of love, lust, sex, jealousy, deceit and ultimate betrayal is certainly open to debate. There are some who are prepared to claim that Nick is the devil incarnate or the personification of fate in this story. However, I for one refuse to believe that the character of Nick is some kind of tempting devil or fate. Rather that he is an opportunist, a conman, slippery and deceitful.Yet, watching the Miller's Tale you can't help finding yourself empathising not with poor old John, but with Nick - virtually rooting for him, considering the effort that he is going to in order to secure a few precious minutes alone with Alison.A sexy, sleazy, bawdy story that is much in keeping with the original tale. I loved it!

star1981 The recent adaptation of The Canterbury Tales featured a sly,slick and utterly sexy James Nesbitt.He was compelling as the con artist hellbent on seducing a glamorous Billie Piper.I was not familar with Chaucer before seeing this adaptation but really enjoyed it.I get the feeling however there will be a moral with each tale and few,if none will end particuarly happily.The actor James Nesbitt,known previously for his role in popular ITV drama Cold Feet has never ever struck me as sexy before!Yet everything about his performance in the Canterbury Tales was spot on,his delivery ,his admittedly pervy glances(shudder),and even his clothing.I felt his haircut was effective too,would he have managed quite such a slick performance with that curly mop he usually sports?The arrogant expression on his face whilst smoking a cigarette after his finally obtaining his goal has given me shivers ever since!