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www.movie-vault.com - : This 1965 MGM classic, directed by David Lean, is an epic love story based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Adapted for screen by Robert Bolt, the majority of this powerful story is told from the perspective of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). He is a poet and also a talented doctor. Told through flash backs, it has the backdrop of the situation in Russia before, during and after the Bolshevik revolution. Zhivago is an orphan who lives a hard life. The main plot of the story is that he is caught up between the two loves of his life. They are his wife Tonya, played by Geraldine Chaplin and his mistress Lara (Julie Christie). more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : When David Lean's ''Doctor Zhivago'' was released in 1965, it was pounced upon by the critics, who found it a picture-postcard view of revolution, a love story balanced uneasily atop a painstaking reconstruction of Russia. Lean was known for his elaborate sets, his infinite patience with nature and climates, and his meticulous art direction, but for Pauline Kael, his ''method is basically primitive, admired by the same sort of people who are delighted when a stage set has running water or a painted horse looks real enough to ride.'' more...
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www.cinescene.com - : A tedious and ultimately lifeless epic, adapted from Boris Pasternak's Nobel prize-winning novel. The central love triangle is not believable. We are supposed to accept that Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and Lara (Julie Christie) are deeply in love because the film asserts it, yet there are no scenes that really show you how or why they care for each other. more...
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