Empire Magazine
This Blithe Spirit dilutes the original's heady cocktail, serving up a sugary punch rather than a dry martini.
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Blithe Spirit (2020)
Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench star in this adaptation of the 1941 Noël Coward play about the comedic and complex love triangle brought about by a seance gone wrong.
A married writer with writer's block consults a spiritualist medium who accidentally evokes the spirit of his first wife while performing a seance.
2020Rating: CTC95 minsUK
Comedy
Blithe Spirit (2020) / Reviews
The Guardian
Despite the heavyweight cast, the film's production values are those of a kids' TV show that might go out on a weekday afternoon.
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A tin-eared, lumpen-footed, almost perversely unfunny new spin on Noël Coward's breezy 1940s farce...
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Daily Telegraph
Makes you howl with anguish that [Fisher] hasn't been handed a better script.
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FilmInk
The film is never a bore (the worst thing to be in Coward’s upper crust circles) and for that we must be thankful. Still, it never quite flies either.
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