Equus Reviews

Vivian 2022-11-05 21:37:30

Transposing Peter Shaffer's influential psychosexual play onto the celluloid, Sidney Lumet's EQUUS notches up Richard Burton's seventh and final Oscar nomination and puts a young Peter Firth on the map, who has been acted in the role in over one thousand times from Laurence Olivier's National...

Ocie 2022-10-17 13:00:07

17-year-old Alan was sent to psychiatrist Martin after stabbing six horses blind. During the conversation, Allen's fanatical love and hatred for horses made Martin also affected. He kept asking Allen and questioning himself. Is the spiritual home of people in the commercial society desolate and...

Monserrat 2022-09-30 12:01:07

The film earned Richard Burton his seventh Oscar nomination in 1978, and that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

After watching it, I really want to say, this is a purely dazzling film. The whole film is supported by his lines and narration. I can't imagine a second person playing his...

Valentina 2022-07-05 23:27:02

By Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times, April 4, 1976 Full text translation

A few weeks ago, Richard Burton returned to Broadway after 12 years in Peter Schaffer's psychological thriller "Equestrian." Like all his controversial behavior, his performance as the show's tortured child psychiatrist,...

Meggie 2022-07-05 19:29:14

Looking at Burton's acting skills from this group of photos, Burton's acting skills do not need to rely on video to rely on moving pictures to show, just like Burton never needs tears to express pain and sorrow, he refuses to act in tears because he does not need to be like other actors. Relying on...

Kimberly 2022-07-05 19:26:02

A bit of an incomprehensible movie.

The teenager escaped the hypocritical and rigid dogma of his parents and found the horse, but after finding that he was not "pure" enough, he could only kill the god/horse, and fell into chaos in order to escape without a way out. The doctor takes it as his duty...

Amparo 2022-07-05 17:57:19

Some tangled emotions about Equus. It was originally because of Richard Burton's name that I received this film, but unfortunately the disc was spent, and I was seeing the young man embracing a horse under hypnosis, like a lover. It took about two years to find a better version. This is a...

Alverta 2022-07-05 17:32:53

Equus is Latin, the corresponding English meaning is 'horse', and the Chinese translation is "horse lover". Daniel, 17, who was the first to know about the stage play in the much-reported Harry Potter movie, will star in the show naked. The show, written by Schaffer, is based on a true event in...