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A complicated, emotionally honest film with a lot of heart …
… there is more to do with love than hate in Anyone but You, and definitely more for audiences to enjoy than dislike.
Stephen Vagg looks at the 1964 Australian TV special, which runs for, well, half an hour and stars, you guessed it, Robert Helpmann.
We go straight to the source with the fascinating subject of the latest film from Stephen Frears and Steve Coogan, in which she is played by the redoubtable Sally Hawkins.
... Hawkins does a great job of making Philippa feel real and she manages to inject a whole lot of fight into the character ...
“Sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me.”
Kit Harington plays the title role excellently, with appropriate passion and gravitas.
Just nine years old when his family moved away from the troubles of Northern Ireland’s Belfast to the relative peace of Berkshire in the UK in 1969, Kenneth Branagh has
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian TV plays gets a bit STC/MTC-season-subscriber, looking at two different adaptations of Elizabethan classics: Othello (1964) and Volpone (1968).