Summary
The Impressionists (BBC1); Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (ITV1) LIKE the hazardous moment when someone steps on to a boat with one foot just as the pesky vessel moves away with the other leg still on shore, The Impressionists found itself floundering helplessly between a learning experience for children and a grownup drama.
I suspect that the big splash that usually follows such dockside misfortunes will continue into next week (this docudrama is in three parts) when, a little postscript last night promised, Claude Monet will pronounce: 'There is love and there is work, and we only have one heart.' Quite what this means, I have no idea, but The Impressionists is full of this declamatory stuff, with good actors reduced to dummies as they hurl portentous remarks at each other while splashing paint on canvases, carousing in cafes (do Frenchmen click their wine glasses together this frequently?), endure poverty, and bed their models.See the full content of this document
Extract
A Shade On the Light Side
It is Monet at 80, played by Julian Glover assuming a voluminous white beard like Moses, who has the hardest time, taking a young journalist around his garden at Giverny and explaining to him the early history of Impr...
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