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Chimes at Midnight

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Original title: Falstaff - Chimes at Midnight
Year: 1965
Running time: 115 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Orson Welles
Screenwriter: Orson Welles. Texts: William Shakespeare. Book: Raphael Holinshed
Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Cinematography: Edmond Richard (B&W)
Cast: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Marina Vlady, Norman Rodway, Alan Webb, Fernando Rey, Walter Chiari, Andrew Faulds, Michael Aldridge, Julio Peña, Andrés Mejuto, Keith Pyott, Jeremy Rowe, José NietoSee 4 More
Producer: Co-production Spain-Switzerland-France;
Alpine Films, Internacional Films
Genre: Drama. Comedy. War | Middle Ages. 15th Century. Friendship. Historical
Movie Groups: Shakespeare: Henry V | Shakespeare: Henry IV | Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor | Shakespeare: Richard II
Synopsis: Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's drinking companion. The massive knight roisters with and without the prince, philosophizes comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), and meets his final disappointment, set in a real-looking late-medieval England.

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Awards: 1966: Cannes Film Festival: Technical Prize

1967: BAFTA Awards: Nominated to Best Foreign Actor (Orson Welles)

Critics' reviews

"A brilliant tribute to Falstaff (...) Welles brings several passages of genius (...) Here is a film to treasure (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"'Chimes at Midnight' carries an astonishing emotional kick that seems to grow each time I see it (...) This film has a way of creeping up on you"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"[Welles] directed the film with an imaginative and expressive clarity that propels it to the front rank of his movies—and of the history of cinema"

Richard Brody: The New Yorker
"The best and most touchingly personal of all Shakespeare adaptations (...) Inventive and expressive in its approach to text, and consistently surprising and creative as filmmaking"

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: AV Club
"For all of its flaws it’s a glory (...) Welles orchestrates, ferociously and magisterially, the clubbing, slashing, piercing monstrosity of war."

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
"Some performances are crude and it has an unfinished feel (...) But overall this elegiac, monochrome movie (...) is a rich masterpiece"

Philip French: The Guardian
"An often-ignored masterpiece. Check it out (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

David Parkinson: Empire
"It is Welles’s most human film, his most poignant, funny and empathetic. It’s also one of the best screen adaptation of Shakespeare (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Tom Huddleston: Time Out

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