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Cleopatra
It is a series of powerful historical events experienced by the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. Perhaps the story of the Queen is about the triumphs and tragedies of her life. During her rule in Egypt, Cleopatra was trying to manipulate Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in her ominous attempt to save the Egyptian empire from certain destruction.
29 June 1920, London, England, UK
21 October 1936, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
14 July 1931, Bristol, England, UK
30 November 1916, Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
3 October 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
13 July 1918, Peterborough, England, UK
7 May 1938, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
20 January 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3 January 1935, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
2 August 1924, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
February 09, 2006
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity.
October 06, 2014
Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op.
November 25, 2014
Four-hour visual stunner requires patience, maturity.
May 05, 2008
[A] general muddle.
August 02, 2014
The film has a spectacular variety of liabilities (and, to be fair, strengths as well), but the most visible and crushing is that's an utter dud as a star vehicle.
March 30, 2016
It may not be as compelling and tightly edited as Ben-Hur, but Cleopatra is still a Hollywood epic that tells a grand story in a grand way. Save it for a night when the family feels like a four-hour spectacle.
February 15, 2014
A lumbering monstrosity of a movie with all manner of preposterous hairstyles and improbable fashions. Worth seeing -- once anyway -- at least as wayward legend.
September 05, 2007
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.
August 19, 2013
Though it owes as much to Shakespeare's interpretation and to Roman propaganda as to the historical record, this interpretation of the great queen's life succeeds in conveying something of the intelligence and force of personality her opponents feared.
March 11, 2016
...a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman.
July 09, 2013
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.
