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Title: Nashville meets Remains of the Day: Watch it 50 times
Review: Robert Altman uses his multi-character, overlapping story style that we loved in Nashville, to make a homage to the Merchant-Ivory style of English movie. I say "homage" because it's not a parody.Altman shot the scenes with very many characters talking at once, often with multiple cameras. The result is convincingly realistic, although the sound quality is often maddeningly muffled and the dialog is difficult to pick up through the various British accents.The casting is fabulous, and Maggie Smith as the witheringly sharp-tongued dowager is the best. But close behind is Ryan Philippe's impression of an American doing and impression of a Scottish accent deserves an academy award.You'll need to own this on DVD as you'll watch it 50 times before you catch all the dialog--you'll love it more with each viewing.
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