EmpireOfLight Review: Colman & Ward Are Stellar In Sam Mendes' Bland Film
Academy Award winner Sam Mendes returns to the big screen to give audiences a glimpse into his appreciation for movies, music, and pop culture. Mendes' latest intersects 1980s U.K, a time during great political and racial upheaval, with the importance of film and music to showcase how these two unrelated matters could bring people from different demographics together. Mendes directed and wrote the screenplay, which stars Academy Award winner Olivia Colman and breakout star Micheal Ward.
Hilary and Stephen gradually come to appreciate each other’s company, which leads to a budding romance that feels a bit perplexing despite the chemistry between the two leads. Viewers see Hilary’s attraction and reliance on Stephen, but the film never explains the reciprocity. In hindsight, they bond over trauma, with Mendes sprinkling in overt examples of racism that don’t amount to anything as spectators look on in bewilderment.
Despite the somewhat failed attempt to create a poignant story about the power of community with respect to both mental health and race issues, Empire of Light still contains some valuable elements from a viewer’s perspective. Mendes reunites with Academy Award-winning director of photography, Roger Deakins, for the fifth time in his career. Where the script fails to pull in the magic from a storytelling perspective, Deakins’ cinematography captures it with an ease.
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