Byron
- TV Movie
- 2003
- 2h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
1.2K
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Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.Following the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Irena Micijevic
- Beautiful Turkish Woman
- (as Irena Micijevic Rodic)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe red poofy hat Natasha Little (Augusta Leigh) wears to visit Annabella is the same one Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) wears when she visits Jane Bennet on Gracechurch Street in Pride and Prejudice (1995).
- GoofsWhen Byron tells Miss Milbanke that he "views mathematics from an incomprehensible distance", it is quite clear from the context that he means "an uncomprehending distance". "Incomprehensible" and "uncomprehending" are, of course, not synonyms.
- Quotes
Annabella Milbanke: What did you mean when you said you've done evil?
Lord Byron: Nothing, I was bored.
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Misconceived
I pulled up "Byron" from the profile of the screenwriter, Nick Dear, who did such an amazing job in compressing "Persuasion" into two hours in 1995. I looked forward to seeing his handling of the more difficult & complex character & works of Byron.
Whether it was an incompetent production team or director, there is no baseline from which to spin out the story. Apart from the remarkable resemblance of the actor to Byron's facial appearance, neither actor nor director appeared to give any thought at all to the man behind what masks he might be donning successively. He almost seems like a travesty of his own hero-manqué, Don Juan. Those elements of his character which made him notable as well as scandalous are missing, none of the irresistibility or wit. The eroticism is singularly banal and vacuous.
Perhaps they redeemed this mess in the second part, but I was so indifferent to it all that neither I nor my wife were inclined to jump into the trash again to look for a gem. Or as Samuel Johnson said "I do not expect, on picking up a web (of a tapestry) and finding packthread, to discover, further inspection, embroidery."
Whether it was an incompetent production team or director, there is no baseline from which to spin out the story. Apart from the remarkable resemblance of the actor to Byron's facial appearance, neither actor nor director appeared to give any thought at all to the man behind what masks he might be donning successively. He almost seems like a travesty of his own hero-manqué, Don Juan. Those elements of his character which made him notable as well as scandalous are missing, none of the irresistibility or wit. The eroticism is singularly banal and vacuous.
Perhaps they redeemed this mess in the second part, but I was so indifferent to it all that neither I nor my wife were inclined to jump into the trash again to look for a gem. Or as Samuel Johnson said "I do not expect, on picking up a web (of a tapestry) and finding packthread, to discover, further inspection, embroidery."
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