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Onegin
EMAILPRINTSamuel Goldwyn Films
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Peter Ettedgui
Michael Ignattief
Alexander Pushkin (poem)
Directed by: Martha Fiennes
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 17, 1999
DVD: July 11, 2000
Running Time: 106 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for brief violence and a sexual image
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey, and Martin Donovan
Director Martha Fiennes explores the theme of unrequited love in this drama based on Aleksandr Pushkin's verse novel. Eugene Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), an 1820s Saint Petersberg aristocrat is introduced to the young and passionate Tatiana (Tyler) who falls in love with him and is intially refused.
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Few things are more enthralling than unrequited love, as demonstrated by this drama.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
The pace slackens a little after the first hour, but the photography by Remi Adefarasin and music by Magnus Fiennes keep the emotion stoked.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Fiennes does this sort of inner pain thing exceedingly well, Tyler is beguiling and believable, and there is an edge of wit and grace to the proceedings.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
(Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
A handsome, somewhat draggy and abrupt film that's more memorable in snippets than as a whole.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There is a cool, mannered elegance to the picture that I like, but it's dead at its center.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
(Tyler's) voice is still mall American, and Onegin's rejection of her is nowhere near as puzzling or as tragic as it's supposed to be.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Overall, this is the kind of thing that gives literary adaptations their bad name.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Would have been a stronger movie if it didn't require a strong cup of coffee going in.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Anila W. gave it a10:
Ralph Fiennes is a genius, a prophet, a saint of acting. I keep wondering, how a human being could have received such amounts of God's grace, as he has.
Margarita B. gave it a 10:
Is very well adapted to Pushkin's work. The music is excellent and fills the expectator with the emotions and feelings expressed in this drama.
Herschel M. gave it a 7:
Haunting, beautifully filmed, and intriguing characters ... but not less engaging than it could have been. The detached feel and icy scenery is somehow fitting in this story of surpressed passion and male ineffectuality.
Sierra T. gave it an 8:
Intensely romantic, acute portrayal of the bittersweet aftertaste of unrequited love.