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Burton and Taylor

2013 · 1h 23m Drama, TV Movie
Directed by Richard Laxton

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Overview

Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

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Bonham Carter has a firm hand on a fundamental conflict within Taylor, which is that she seems like such an impossibly elegant, self-possessed woman at some moments and like such an infuriating flake at others.

Linda Holmes, NPR
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Bonham Carter offers up a sympathetic Liz who is in the process of squandering her talent; West makes Burton's brokenness seem like a noble resignation. And both seem surprised that each other's company is no longer the cure for what ails them.

Hank Stuever, Washington Post
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It's a film that asks a lot from West and Bonham Carter, who deliver time and again in roles that could have eaten them alive. Instead we feast.

Ed Bark, Uncle Barky
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Not only does it capture the essence of the two outsize icons of film and scandal, it also brings them in for a humanizing close-up.

David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

BBC America is here to set the universe right again with its love/hate story about Hollywood's hot mess of a couple.

Lori Rackl, Chicago Sun-Times

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