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Title: Great failure
Review: This movie version of Boris Pasternak's novel is so far removed from that novel as to be virtually another entity. The characters have little relation to Paternak's descriptions or his insights into the inner lives of Lara and Yuri. Sharif is very poor as a Russian poet, and his sparkling eyes are bad substitutes for good acting. Jukie Christie is woinderful, she can muster through, but she is too British, and there is also Ralph Richradson and Tom Courtney and G. Chaplin and Siobahn McKenna...too western by far. And that script by Bolt is atrocious! Read P{asternak and pray the Russians re film it as it should be filmed.The score is pleasant, but stereotypical and syrupy. Not Lean's best. His best and greatest is Lawrence of Arabia. See this and know how hampered hje was by Ponti and Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Bolt's total lack of understanding of the novel!!Avoid this campy movie...
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