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Dance First review " Samuel Beckett's life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment

by Peter Bradshaw

Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance Director James Marsh has boldly, maybe even sacrilegiously, given us a Hollywoodised biopic of Samuel Beckett. It starts with Beckett surreally escaping the Nobel ceremony to talk in private with a doppelganger confessor " a breezier, more worldly self in a rolln…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24am on November 1, 2023