Cleopatra: The Film
That Changed Hollywood (2001)
Directed by Kevin
Burns and Brent Zacky this documentary features interviews and unseen
footage from Cleopatra (1963). We followed the troubled production of
Cleopatra (1963) as a film studio bets everything it has on this mega
production.
What this documentary
does an excellent job of is charting disaster after disaster and
various types of mismanagement that Cleopatra suffered from. Where
the film falls down on is that it never fulfils it's premise and
barely scrapes the surface of putting the film into a wider context
of film history. It would have been nice to see some more interviews
with those who had first hand experience with making the film but
sadly nearly all the key people were dead by the time this
documentary was made.
3/5
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