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Article: KENNETH BRANAGH BLOWS A BIG KISS TO ACTORS WITH `A MIDWINTER'S TALE'.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 23, 1996
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Director Lawrence Kasdan has long maintained that, unlike writers and painters and most other artists, actors are - as a group - the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. ``They have,'' he claims, ``an innocence, vulnerability, and willingness to sacrifice for their art that truly ennobles them.''
Kenneth Branagh apparently feels this way too, because his new film, ``A Midwinter's Tale,'' is one of the cinema's more wholehearted tributes to the profession: a gentle, funny, and immensely sweet-spirited valentine to actors and acting.
Shot in black-and-white with a large ensemble cast (Branagh wrote the script and directed but does not play a part), the ...