Voice from the Stone

Momentum Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 2017

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belljMay 2, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Emilia is beautiful in this classic role set in ~1950's Italy. And the music, the ambiance of the castle, the red ivy, the fog, etc. all combine with the ever-present art and sculptures on the estate grounds to create a neo-Roman "Wuthering Heights" backdrop to tell an epic story. Unfortunately, the beautiful but puzzling story unfolding suddenly jumps ahead disjointedly (as so many do in this genre), not linking the first 2/3rds of the film with the latter 1/3. It may be the author's/screenwriter's intent to create a web of confusion for the audience about what is real and what is not, and whose spirit inhabits the main character's "being" in the end. But it takes that leap too quickly to allow the audience to come along with the storyteller and the characters themselves. Obviously, it would be harder to film Emilia's character playing the piano masterfully at the end, but it should have at least been tried, even if it was just a shot of a stand-in's hands playing the classical piece you hear. Instead, you're left wondering whether she actually is playing the piano via the spirit of the dead wife, or is she actually just hallucinating that she can play the piano and thinks she IS a reincarnation of the dead wife. Again, maybe such confusion is the exact effect that they wanted to have on the viewer, but the herky-jerky sudden change in pacing without any further telling of the story (so beautifully done up to that point), made the beauty and atmosphere in this film suddenly take a nosedive during the finale, into the realm of "How did we get HERE?" Nevertheless, Emilia Clarke is still beautiful in this role, even if you're not always sure what's going on with her character and the story.… Expand

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