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Blithe Spirit review: unbuttoning Noel Coward s farce

A gung ho cast including Judi Dench and Leslie Mann dispense with the suavity (and much of the dialogue) of Coward’s 1940s play and film adaptation, with very broad results.

Blithe Spirit review: Judi Dench leads spooky nostalgia fest

Blithe Spirit review: Judi Dench leads spooky nostalgia fest James City A.M. s film editor and a regular on both TV and radio discussing the latest movie releases Welcome to cinema’s New Normal. While big blockbusters are optimistically waiting for us in the spring, the first quarter of the year is strategically filled with independent releases that have adopted a dual release format – in cinemas if we have them, on VOD if not. Produced by Sky, Blithe Spirit (starring Dame Judi Dench) was intended for cinemas before the most recent lockdown was announced, and under the current circumstances will air on Sky Movies and On Demand. 

Blithe Spirit Review: Flat, Dated Resurrection of Noël Coward Farce Proves Some Things Are Better Left Dead

Blithe Spirit Review: Flat, Dated Resurrection of Noël Coward Farce Proves Some Things Are Better Left Dead
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Movie Review - Blithe Spirit (2020)

SYNOPSIS: A struggling crime novelist experiments with a séance in search of inspiration, only to unwittingly summon the ghost of his deceased ex-wife. Writer’s block is a very real problem. Certainly, anyone of a creative persuasion who has struggled with a blank page in front of them will recognise the way in which 1930s-set farce Blithe Spirit introduces Dan Stevens’s crime novelist Charles Condomine – only able to hammer the word “HELP” into his typewriter. Perhaps less obvious is his plan to solve the issue. To giggles of derision from his wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) and their friends, he hires spiritual medium Madame Arcati (Judi Dench) to conduct a séance, hoping her tricks of the trade will inspire him to tell a supernaturally-inflected tale.

Blithe Spirit, review: a more than medium-sized disaster

1/5 The linguistic wit and thrust of Noel Coward s play have been replaced by posh-speak pastiche and ham-fisted narrative gambits 15 January 2021 • 10:56am Judi Dench in Blithe Spirit Credit: StudioCanal  12A cert, 96 min. Dir: Edward Hall. Cast: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt  If you’ve spent the last nine months pining for some light relief in the theatre, a sparky screen adaptation of Blithe Spirit might be just what you need. Good news! Such a mood-boosting marvel exists, and has done since 1945. Directed by David Lean, and starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford, it’s available to rent from Amazon or Apple TV, or stream on BritBox. On the other hand, if top-to-toe miscalculations are your bag, by all means help yourself to the 2021 version, which might be an object lesson in what not to do with Coward on screen. 

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