‘Elsinore’ Review: Andrew Scott’s Towering Performance as a Dying Actor Can’t Overcome AIDS-Movie Awards Bait Clichés
Andrew Scott plays Ian Charleson, who takes Hamlet despite full-blown AIDS and performs 24 shows before dying seven weeks later.
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'Elsinore' Review: Andrew Scott Gives The Performance Of A Lifetime As An Actor Who Gave the Performance Of His Life
TELLURIDE: We’re not sure we can purely put into words what Andrew Scott has accomplished with his portrayal of Ian Charleson in “Elsinore.” A new drama that finds Scott playing a man grappling with his own existential fate while also delivering one of the most celebrated performances of “Hamlet” in modern times. At a minimum, Scott needs to make us believe this man who is dying from AIDS is pulling off an otherworldly moment on the London stage…
‘Elsinore’ Review: Andrew Scott Is Powerfully Moving as Ian Charleson, the ‘Chariots of Fire’ Star Who Played Hamlet While Ravaged by AIDS
The tender power of "Elsinore" is the way Scott’s performance takes us right inside Ian’s state-of-mind — his belief that what’s left of his life needs to mean something, and that playing Hamlet will give it that meaning.
‘Elsinore’ Review: Andrew Scott’s Towering Performance as a Dying Actor Can’t Overcome AIDS-Movie Awards Bait Clichés
There’s no question Andrew Scott, the 49-year-old Irish actor, has earned his position as one of the finest contemporary actors going. He’s in demand, but choosing wisely, and in roles that slyly play off his own status as an out gay man (a rare thing indeed) but with something off-center beneath, often a secret. He played Tom Ripley, one even more sociopathic than Matt Damon’s own iconically calculating Adonis, to devastating effect in the sini…
‘Elsinore’ Review: Andrew Scott Is Shattering as British Actor Ian Charleson, Throwing Himself Into Playing Hamlet While Succumbing to AIDS
Simon Stone’s drama about the sustaining power of art is a time capsule of late 1980s London, also starring Olivia Colman, Billie Piper and Johnny Flynn.
'Elsinore' Review: Andrew Scott Brilliant In Story Of Ian Charleson
Scottish-born actor Ian Charleson co-starred in a leading role in the 1981 Oscar-winning Best Picture Chariots of Fire. The next year he had a co-starring role in yet another Best Picture winner, Gandhi. Not bad, but in his heart he was an actor born to the London stage, and as the Hollywood career faded he […]
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