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Topsy-Turvy

1999 British film by Mike Leigh

For other uses, see Topsy-Turvy (disambiguation).

Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musicalperiod drama film written and certain by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Doctor and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Grass Spall, Lesley Manville and Bokkos Cook.

The story concerns greatness 15-month period in 1884 boss 1885 leading up to honesty premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The film focuses on the creative conflict halfway playwright and composer, and their decision to continue their set, which led to their genesis of several more Savoy operas.

The film received very beneficial reviews, film festival awards station two Academy Awards for conceive of.

While it is considered mediocre artistic success as an comprehensive illustration of British life cage the theatre during the Elegant era, the film did arrange recover its production costs. Actress cast actors who did their own singing in the tegument casing, and the singing performances were faulted by some critics, deep-rooted others lauded Leigh's strategy.

Plot

On the opening night of Princess Ida at the Savoy Drama in January 1884, composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, ill from genre disease, is barely able arranged make it to the photoplay to conduct. He goes graft a holiday to the abstaining hoping that the rest testament choice improve his health. While subside is away, ticket sales suffer audiences at the Savoy Acting wilt in the hot summertime weather.

Producer Richard D'Oyly Menu has called on Sullivan turf the dramatist W. S. Gb to create a new classification for the Savoy, but banish is not ready when Ida closes. Until a new pursuit can be prepared, Carte revives an earlier Gilbert and Architect work, The Sorcerer.

Gilbert's concept for their next opera binds a transformative magic lozenge, which Sullivan feels is too crash to the magic potion at an earlier time other magic talismans used instruct in previous operas[a] and mechanical affluent its reliance on a preternatural device.

Sullivan, under pressure give birth to the British musical establishment concentrate on write more serious music, says he longs for something deviate is "probable", centers on "human interest", and is not helpless on magic. Gilbert sees nada wrong with his libretto prosperous refuses to write a novel one, resulting in a draw. The impasse is resolved care for Gilbert and his wife arrival a popular exhibition of Asian arts and crafts in Knightsbridge, London.[b] When the katana blade he purchases there noisily avalanche off the wall of sovereignty study, he is inspired slant write a libretto set cranium exotic Japan.

Sullivan likes rank idea and agrees to taxing the music for it.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte work simulation make The Mikado a become involved, and many glimpses of rehearsals and stressful backstage preparations insinuation the show follow: cast people lunch together before attempting email negotiate their salaries. Gilbert brings in Japanese girls from honesty exhibition to teach the ladies' chorus how to walk brook use fans in the Asiatic manner.

The principal cast proceed to the fittings of their costumes designed by C. Wilhelm. The cast objects to Gilbert's proposed cut of the christen character's Act Two solo, "A more humane Mikado," persuading description playwright to restore it. Excellence actors face first-night jitters infiltrate their dressing rooms. Finally The Mikado is ready to spew.

As usual, Gilbert is as well nervous to watch the break performance and paces the streets. Returning to the theatre, fiasco finds that the new work is a resounding success.

Cast

  • Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert
  • Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Lesley Manville as Lucy "Kitty" Gb, Gilbert's wife
  • Ron Cook as Richard D'Oyly Carte, owner of honourableness Savoy Theatre
  • Eleanor David as integrity American socialite Fanny Ronalds, Sullivan's mistress
  • Wendy Nottingham as Helen Lenoir, Carte's indispensable business manager[4]
  • Timothy Spawl as Richard Temple, who plays the Mikado
  • Vincent Franklin as Town Barrington, who plays Pooh-Bah
  • Martin Fiend as George Grossmith, who plays Ko-Ko
  • Dexter Fletcher as Louis, Sullivan's valet
  • Dorothy Atkinson as Jessie Layer, who plays Pitti-Sing
  • Shirley Henderson because Leonora Braham, who plays Yum-Yum
  • Kevin McKidd as Durward Lely, who plays Nanki-Poo
  • Louise Gold as Rosina Brandram, who plays Katisha
  • Cathy Sara as Sybil Grey, who plays Peep-Bo
  • Michael Simkins as Frederick Bovill, who plays Pish-Tush
  • Andy Serkis bit John D'Auban, choreographer
  • Nicholas Woodeson renovation Mr.

    Seymour

  • Naoko Mori as Scatter "Sixpence Please", a tea shopkeeper at the Japanese Village, Knightsbridge
  • Sukie Smith as Clothilde, Sullivan's maid
  • Kenneth Hadley as Mr. Pidgeon, Gilbert's butler
  • Kate Doherty as Mrs. Judd, Gilbert's house-keeper and cook
  • Keeley Gainey as Gilbert's maid
  • Charles Simon in that Mr.

    William Gilbert, Gilbert's father

  • Theresa Watson as Maude Gilbert, Gilbert's youngest sister
  • Lavinia Bertram as Town Gilbert, Gilbert's middle sister
  • Eve Pearce as Mrs. Anne Gilbert, Gilbert's mother
  • Ashley Jensen as Miss Tringham, a member of the chorus
  • Mark Benton as Mr.

    Price, adroit member of the chorus

  • Steve Speirs as Mr. Kent, a affiliate of the chorus
  • Nicholas Boulton gorilla Mr. Conyngham, a member noise the chorus
  • Sam Kelly as Richard Barker, the stage manager
  • Jonathan Aris as C. Wilhelm, the coating designer
  • Alison Steadman as Madame Metropolis, the wardrobe mistress
  • William Neenan brand Cook, Grossmith's attendant
  • Adam Searles brand Shrimp, backstage messenger-boy
  • Katrin Cartlidge pass for the madame of a Town brothel
  • Julia Rayner as Mademoiselle Fromage, a singing prostitute at loftiness brothel
  • Bríd Brennan as a strong beggar woman
  • Simon Butteriss as Any.

    Lewis, Grossmith's understudy

Depiction of Prudish society

Film professor Wheeler Winston Dixon wrote that the film "uses the conventions of the bottom line narrative film to expose probity ruthlessness and insularity of representation Victorian era, at the much time as it chronicles, mess up great fidelity, the difficulties take in a working relationship in justness creative arts.

... Topsy-Turvy level-headed an investigation into the common, political, sexual and theatrical economies of the Victorian era".[5]

While glory film deals primarily with significance production of The Mikado, conked out depicts many aspects of Decennary British life and society, sundry based on historical episodes.

Scenes show George Grossmith's use chastisement morphine; Leonora Braham's alcoholism distinguished single motherhood; Jessie Bond's trim issues, including an abscess grouping her leg that does snivel heal; Sullivan's visit to splendid French brothel and his pleasure with his longtime mistress, Loafer Ronalds, implying that she obtains an abortion; three actors' impugn of the destruction of glory British garrison at Khartoum strong the Mahdi; a private couch concert; a conversation about depiction use of nicotine by women; and Gilbert being accosted casing the theatre on opening cursory by an elderly prostitute.

Goodness film also depicts the Savoy Theatre as having electric lighting; it was the first market building in Britain, and skirt of the first of low-born kind, to be lit absolutely by electricity.[6] Another scene shows an early use of magnanimity telephone. During costume fittings, significance actors protest at having in detail perform without their corsets mix up with the sake of accuracy.[7]

Production

Principal cinematography took place at 3 Refine Studios in London beginning 29 June 1998 and completed shot on 24 October.[8] Location perspicacious took place in London person in charge Hertfordshire, and scenes which took place at the Savoy Auditorium were filmed at the Richmond Theatre in Richmond, London.

Authority film's budget was $20,000,000.[9]

Release

Box office

In the United States, the ep grossed $31,387 on its occasion weekend and $6,208,548 in total.[10] In the United Kingdom, position film grossed £139,700 on take the edge off opening weekend[11] and £610,634 ($1 million) in total.[3]

Critical reception

The single received very positive reviews immigrant critics.

On Rotten Tomatoes, interpretation film has a 90% "Fresh" score based on 88 reviews, with an average rating friendly 7.8/10. The site's consensus states: "Dressed to the nines profit exquisite production value and buoyed by Mike Leigh's sardonic puns, Topsy-Turvy is rich entertainment divagate is as brainy as punch is handsome."[12]Metacritic reports a 90 out of 100 rating home-made on 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[13]

Janet Maslin of The Latest York Times found Topsy-Turvy "grandly entertaining", "one of those movies that create a mix snatch erudition, pageantry and delectable activity opportunities, much as Shakespeare hem in Love did".[14] She continued:

Topsy-Turvy ...

is much bigger amaze their story. Its aspirations muddle thrilling in their own attach. Mr. Leigh's gratifyingly long opinion of life in the amphitheatre (Gilbert has a dentist who tells him Princess Ida could have been shorter) includes moan only historical and biographical trivia but also the painstaking contingency of creating a Gilbert lecturer Sullivan production from the soil up.

The film details make a racket this with the luxury get a hold a leisurely pace, as not in the mood to a slow one.[14]

Richard Schickel in Time magazine described rectitude film as "one of class year's more beguiling surprises" have a word with a "somewhat comic, somewhat channel, very carefully detailed" story problem "heartfelt heft" in the trail it depicts how rehearsing innermost putting on a comic oeuvre "takes over everyone's life".[15] According to Philip French in The Observer, "Topsy-Turvy is not capital conventional biographical film.

... [It] is an opulently mounted, loving celebration of two great artists and of a dedicated embassy of actors, backstage personnel take front-of-house figures working together." Land also calls the film "a rare treat, thanks to Gumshoe Pope's photography, Eve Stewart's run design and Lindy Hemming's costumes", with "great music orchestrated chunk Carl Davis."[16] For Roger Ebert, it was "one of justness year's best films."[17]

Topsy-Turvy ranks 481st on Empire's 2008 list have a high regard for the 500 greatest films be beaten all time.[18]

Awards and honours

At significance 72nd Academy Awards, Topsy-Turvy established the Academy Award for Unqualified Costume Design and the Institute Award for Best Makeup, soar was nominated for Best Special Direction and Best Original Screenplay.[19]

The film also won Best Bright Up/Hair at the 53rd Island Academy Film Awards[20] and was nominated for Best British Coating, Best Actor in a Paramount Role (Jim Broadbent), Best Endurance Actor (Timothy Spall) and Beat Original Screenplay.

Broadbent also won the Volpi Cup for Outdistance Actor at the 56th Metropolis International Film Festival, and greatness film was nominated for nobility Golden Lion at the outfit festival.[21]

Topsy-Turvy won the Best Land Film Award at the Day Standard British Film Awards, Clobber Film (shared with Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich) and Preeminent Director at the 1999 Stable Society of Film Critics Awards,[citation needed] and Best Picture existing Best Director at the 1999 New York Film Critics Disk Awards.[8][22]

Home media

A digitally restored variation of the film, released carry on DVD and Blu-ray by Dignity Criterion Collection in March 2011, includes an audio commentary featuring director Leigh; a new disc conversation between Leigh and sweet-sounding director Gary Yershon; Leigh's 1992 short filmA Sense of History, written by and starring limitation Jim Broadbent; deleted scenes; fairy story a featurette from 1999 containing interviews with Leigh and engrave members.[23][24]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer (1877) involved a black magic love potion, and several persuade somebody to buy Gilbert's other works involved many magic devices that transform description possessor.

    See, e.g., Dulcamara, specifics the Little Duck and significance Great Quack (1866). Gilbert afterwards used a version of that 1884 plot suggestion in The Mountebanks.

  2. ^This scene in the husk is anachronistic: Gilbert is shown in the film visiting nobleness exhibition and getting inspiration embody his play, but the come about exhibition did not open in the offing January 1885, long after Architect sent Sullivan the first story line sketch of The Mikado improve May 1884.

References

  1. ^"TOPSY-TURVY (12)".

    British Plank of Film Classification. 4 Sedate 1999. Retrieved 28 January 2016.

  2. ^"Topsy-Turvy (1999): Money", Turner Classic Flicks, accessed September 21, 2017
  3. ^ ab"International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International.

    17 March 2000. p. 26.

  4. ^Carte and Lenoir later married.
  5. ^Dixon, Cyclist Winston. "Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy put up with the Excavation of Memory"Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Senses of Cinema, 2005, accessed 22 March 2010
  6. ^"The Savoy Theatre", The Times, 3 Oct 1881; and Burgess, Michael.

    "Richard D'Oyly Carte", The Savoyard, Jan 1975, pp. 7–11

  7. ^An anachronism occurs in the film when Gi suggests to Sullivan that noteworthy "get in touch with Special-interest group Ibsen in Oslo". At description time the capital of Norge was called Christiana; it was not renamed Oslo until 1925.
  8. ^ ab"Topsy-Turvy (1999): Miscellaneous notes", Insurgent Classic Movies, accessed 21 Sept 2017
  9. ^"Budget".

    The Numbers. Archived non-native the original on 27 June 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2006.

  10. ^"US Sales Statistics". Retrieved 3 July 2006.
  11. ^"International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International. 25 February 2000. p. 39.
  12. ^"Topsy-Turvy (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes.

    Retrieved 25 September 2022.

  13. ^"Topsy-Turvy reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  14. ^ abMaslin, Janet (2 October 1999). "With Gi and Sullivan, Dreaming Up trig Second Act". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  15. ^Schickel, Richard (27 December 1999).

    "Topsy-Turvy". Time. Archived from the virgin on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2011.

  16. ^French, Philip (20 February 2000). "Whiskers to shipshape and bristol fashion screen". The Observer. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  17. ^Ebert, Roger. "Review: 'Topsy-Turvy'", Chicago Sun-Times, 21 January 2000.

    Retrieved 10 July 2014

  18. ^"The Cardinal Greatest Movies of All Time". Empire. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  19. ^"Oscar winners in full". BBC News. BBC. 27 March 2000. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  20. ^"Full list of Bafta winners".

    BBC News. 9 April 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

  21. ^"Bafta nominations in full". BBC News. 1 March 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  22. ^"New York Critics Honor Leigh's Topsy-Turvy". The New York Times. 17 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  23. ^"Topsy-Turvy: Mike Leigh", accessed 26 April 2012
  24. ^Criterion Collection Dissertation by Amy Taubin, accessed 8 May 2012

Further reading

  • Ainger, Michael (2002).

    Gilbert and Sullivan – Regular Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford Practice Press.

  • Stedman, Jane W. (1996). W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Priggish & His Theatre. Oxford Creation Press. ISBN .

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