![]() Sam Neill's smooth and sinister Victor Komarovsky almost ran away with last night's opening episode." "Davies and Campiotti's version of Boris Pasternak's novel seemed to me emotionally more truthful than Lean's, with a Lara, in Keira Knightly, and a Yuri Zhivago, played by Hans Matheson, quite the equal - dare I say it - of Julie Christie and Omar Sharif. ![]() As for goofy Nick from My Family (Kris Marshall) taking on Tom Courtenay as Pasha, I could hardly bear to watch." They are both extremely pretty (that comes with the Andrew Davies adaption kit), but not much more yet. But he got away with it because, for good or ill, Sharif and Christie have extraordinarily expressive faces. "David Lean even highlighted the eyes of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in unnatural horizontal beams. As Zhivago himself, Hans Matheson comprehensively beats Omar Sharif by the simple tactic of not being an enormous ham." It's also a lot messier, a lot less responsible and a lot more enjoyable. Certainly the outcome is a lot more unbuttoned in every sense (including the literal). "It's tempting to see Dr Zhivago as what Davies did to unwind after behaving himself so scrupulously with Daniel Deronda. ![]() ![]() When it's missing from the original, he adds it - as in Lara's seduction by Komarovsky - and if it's actually there, he amplifies it enormously." ![]()
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