| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Brilliantly-inventive take on a brilliantly-inventive novel that vividly captures the clever wordplay of the original. Starting off with a cine-realistic style it becomes fantastical as we come to learn that Leopold Bloom is haunted by his sexual impotence and his wife's inevitable response in making him a cuckold to satisfy her resulting sexual frustration. His nightmares of sexual inadequacy are central to this drama and produce most of the humor here.
Unlike Lady Chatterley, Molly Bloom does not find fulfillment in the arms of a gamekeeper but at least her long felt want indicates the hope that continues to burn while one is still alive and which makes suicide so abhorrent.
The performances are committed from a troupe that utterly believes - quite rightly - in the quality of the material they are to embody - and fully embody it they do. The performers make the poetry seem natural when spoken and draws us into the enhanced world of James Joyce's Dublin - exaggerated to make the world in all its complexity clearer.
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