The Village Voice, September 21st, 2005
TRACKING SHOTS
OLIVER TWIST
Directed by Roman Polanski
Tristar, opens September 30
Early in the new rendition of Charles Dickens's novel of social injustice, a camera shot briefly holds the friendless orphan between the bars of the workhouse gate. Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is in prison, where he was born and where he is destined, though not absolutely guaranteed, to die. Previous attempts to adapt the harsh and problematic Oliver Twist for the screen have not aged well: Alec Guinness's grotesque portrayal or Fagin, with a huge hook nose prosthetic in a key supporting role, deformed David...
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