23 July 2010

GABLE END FILM SOCIETY

Zac Efron plays a high-school student offered a part in Orson Welles¹s renowned 1937 production of Julius Caesar on Broadway, with Christian McKay giving an uncannily convincing impersonation of the overbearing young Welles, rehearsing the play as a mirror of fascism in Europe and upstaging on the film¹s love interest.

'It turned out to be one of my surprise favourite film treats of last year... Christian McKay dominates the screen as the uncanny reincarnation of Orson, [but] the face of Zac Efron takes centre stage in the film's publicity... As Lucius, the boy with the lute, he gets to work up close and personal, discovering in the process that talent and trouble go hand in hand' - Mark Kermode, Observer

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