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‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: A Musical About Movie Magic Doesn’t Always Conjure It [Sundance]
Cinema has never been shy about self-mythologizing. If ever there were a project that could lay claim to the “magic of movies,” it might be “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” The very subject of Bill Condon’s adaptation of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical is the power of the silver screen to both explain and reshape reality. The problem inherent in such a premise is that a film about the magic of the medium has to also exemplify it, and that’s something this movie musical only achieves in fits and starts. Continue reading ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: A Musical About Movie Magic Doesn’t Always Conjure It [Sundance] at The Playlist.
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Cinema has never been shy about self-mythologizing. If ever there were a project that could lay claim to the “magic of movies,” it might be “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” The very subject of Bill Condon’s adaptation of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical is the power of the silver screen to both explain and reshape reality. The problem inherent in such a premise is that a film about the magic of the medium has to also exemplify it, and that’s something this movie musical only achieves in fits and starts.
