Friday, February 2, 2007

Dreamgirls

by Bill Condon. Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson. DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, USA 2006. Gen. Musical / Drama, 131'.

The tribute to the modern American popular music is becoming trendy: Dreamgirls shortly follows “Radio America”, by Robert Altman, who started this movie genre in 1975 with “Nashville”. Dreamgirls, adapted by a Broadway musical, is the story of the Supreme, leaded by Diana Ross, and in general of the renaissance of the Soul music in the ’60. A picture of the rise and fall of the protagonists of that era. The songs are too many, but the music is more exciting than the play. Some voices are outstanding, as well as the beauty of Beyoncè Knowles (Diana Ross) and Eddie Murphie wearing a red shining jumpsuit. Not bad, only if the theater is not showing something better on Friday night… ---

Non molto da aggiungere…il film scorre, se non fosse per un sopravvento della musica sulla trama verso la metà. Quando per ogni dialogo sembra che debba partire un pezzo. Ma le canzoni, Soul and R&B, sono forse la cosa migliore. Insieme ad alcune voci nere, alla bellezza di Beyoncè, e al mitico Eddie Murphy, che calza alla perfezione il personaggio (in particolare nella scena in cui prova al piano con tuta rossa in acrilico luccicante). Se non c’è niente di meglio venerdì sera… ---

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