So, 6.Burning witches and getting riled up in mass hysteria is thirsty, stressful work. I want to repeat that the whole thing is worth it just to have a glimpse of Sophia Loren singing. I was reminded she was a sublime Sally Bowles in the first London production of "Cabaret" - Daniel Day Lewis has been one of my favourites for a long time now but here he is far too pale, inside and out. Nicole Kidman is starting to look like a wax work, what a pity! And Judi Dench is always fun. Penelope Cruz dances an erotic dance and Kate Hudson, well I don't quite know what she was doing. ![]() The look of it is great, and Marion Cotillard makes something enormous from the little she was given. Here the score is iffy and scarce and the story, translated into musical numbers is kind of shallow and, quite honestly, not enough. I knew I had to forget this was a musical adaptation of 81/2, but I couldn't forget the way I forgot that "Sweet Charity" was a musical remake of "The Nights Of Cabiria". Let me say off the bat that seeing Sophia Loren and Sophia Loren singing gave me a chill.
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