29 April 2013-04-29
Out in the UK this week Life of Pi (Fox, cert PG, Blu-ray/DVD) Reminiscent of those special-effects-driven Alexander Korda productions of the 1940s starring Sabu as an Asian boy in a world of phantasmagoria, Ang Leeās adaptation of Yann Martelās āunfilmableā novel about an Indian teenager and a tiger adrift in a lifeboat is like painting on silk or black velvet ā slickly beautiful though hardly profound. Mind you, when images are this lush ā a phosphorescent sea full of jellyfish, a doomed hulk of a ship going under with all lights blazing, a sea as reflective as mercury, then maybe profundity can take a day off. Life of Pi Ā ā at Amazon … Read more