Belonging to Laura

JP Liz

Belonging to Laura is an outstanding modernisation and hilariously witty remake of Oscar Wilde’s classic play, which sticks as close as possible to its original language. Like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet, credible modern situations, and certain new staging detail, are created/twisted in order to retain almost all of Wilde’s dialogue. On a broader, more thematic level, Wilde’s obsession with the complexities of morality are revealed to be just as relevant today as they were in the late nineteenth century. Belonging to Laura shows that now, as well as then, there are certain secrets worth keeping in order to maintain a healthy relationship.

9pm tonight TV3

Alicat

I'm giving it a whirl....

shinny

Yeh, I'm watching it too.

shinny

The guy playing Tiernan is a pretty bad actor, but besides him I'm kinda enjoying it.

Alicat

Russian girl seems a bit over the top...is she part of the Mafia or something? :rolleyes:

mike rolite

I think its damn good so far. Refreshing to see new faces, apart from the Russian one. Very stylish. She's the mother?! On the edge of my seat. TV3 are showing RTE how its done.

Alessandra

The script was terrible, I was surprised to see it based on one of Oscar Wilde's plays. The actors weren't bad. Lana from fair city is a bit irritating though. The house and location were amazing.

Elmo

Alessandra wrote: »

The script was terrible, I was surprised to see it based on one of Oscar Wilde's plays. The actors weren't bad. Lana from fair city is a bit irritating though. The house and location were amazing.

Is the play a comedy? Perhaps I came to this TV Movie thinking it would be really, really funny. Especially an Oscar Wilde play.

I missed the start of it, so I can't really give an opinion only that the 5 mins I did see (I think part two) suffered like many Irish dramas of lack of dialog and lots of close ups and people coming to conclusions, of course it would have made sense had I seen the first part.

Also the why the shaky camera work, it looked good but didn't seem to suit this film.

Chocoholic84

I was really looking forward to it, but it was an utter pile of sh!te.

Funny? How?

Joey the lips

I though this was good for a monday night viewing. This is the first time i seen the russian since fair city.

The only bad side to irish tele is you constantly see the same actors. Good for them bad for us as we know how they are usually cast.

Lemondrop kid

This the Windemere Fan thing - damn it - would have watched it longer if i knew that.
Watched a bit of it an just could not continue - the main male role was absolutely weird - i mean creepy psycho over the top must switch this off weird. the girl seemed ok, but the script was insane - INSANE!!!!
Which is a huge pity a/ cos David Horan is an excellent director and b/ cos the prod co. are an excellent company.
Having said that I'll give it a try on player, maybe it just caught me the wrong way.

Elmo

Lemondrop kid wrote: »

Which is a huge pity a/ cos David Horan is an excellent director and b/ cos the prod co. are an excellent company.

I thought that grand produced this but then I was thinking Accomplice. But it isn't on either website. Which production company?

shinny

I got to the point watching it were it really had started to annoy me but I wanted to watch to the end.

I think this is exactly right:

Elmo wrote: »

suffered like many Irish dramas of lack of dialog and lots of close ups and people coming to conclusions

Exactly, there is one revelation (I won't ruin it) and you're like, how the hell did he come to that conclusion!!?

hyacinthmc

This had nice touches. The Actors playing Sasha and Laura were very good. I felt for them as they were acting in a vacuum as the Actor playing Tiernan was overly self indulgent. I had little sense of the love between the main couple -they seemed wholly unsuited, there was not enough tension, it felt like nothing was at stake. Having worked in the UK and US- Directors there have a better understanding of Actors. Here its the same old story - The director sacrificed the relationships for a stylized, close up of eyes, lanterns blowing in the wind scape. Not enough anymore. A for effort.

Elmo

hyacinthmc wrote: »

Here its the same old story - The director sacrificed the relationships for a stylized, close up of eyes, lanterns blowing in the wind scape.

I think this disappoints me but also the fact that they didn't make it a comedy. I have never seen the play but I was looking forward to a good comedy. But also there is the disappointment that the "stylization" of the film could have been done without sacrificing the relationships as the writers and director were basing it on one of our greatest playwright's work.

I don't see it on the website.