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Title: What a bore...
Review: I had always wanted to see this movie, considering the hype around it. Never got to see it on free TV and wish I had now, so I'd save the money I spent on the video. This film is a bore, to say the least. It seems to be more a tale of sexual license, rather than a expansive drama of a few characters against the backdrop of a revolution. The characters you care little about, "Lara's Theme" gets to be grating after a while, the city of Moscow seems to be one street with bleak looking buildings around it and the train ride is tedious. I like Julie Christie, but if you want to see her in a long, romantic drama that has a better score and is much more involving, see "Far from the Madding Crowd", from just a few years later after this. If you want to see a better David Lean film, watch "Ryan's Daughter".
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