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Cleopatra
It is a historical story that tells of a series of events by Queen Cleopatra. That story begins where there are victories and tragedies of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. It seems that Cleopatra was trying to manipulate Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in the course of her historic journey in her ominous attempt to save the Egyptian empire.
27 September 1952, Pasadena, California, USA
20 October 1919, Wellington, New Zealand
14 July 1931, Bristol, England, UK
21 October 1936, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
10 August 1918, London, England, UK
29 September 1924, London, England, UK
1 July 1934, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
7 May 1938, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
18 July 1911, London, Ontario, Canada
June 22, 1942 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
February 16, 1928 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA
August 24, 1941 in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
March 30, 2016
It may not be as compelling and tightly edited as Ben-Hur, but Cleopatra is still a Hollywood epic that tells a grand story in a grand way. Save it for a night when the family feels like a four-hour spectacle.
September 05, 2007
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.
August 19, 2013
Though it owes as much to Shakespeare's interpretation and to Roman propaganda as to the historical record, this interpretation of the great queen's life succeeds in conveying something of the intelligence and force of personality her opponents feared.
August 02, 2014
The film has a spectacular variety of liabilities (and, to be fair, strengths as well), but the most visible and crushing is that's an utter dud as a star vehicle.
November 25, 2014
Four-hour visual stunner requires patience, maturity.
July 09, 2013
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.
February 15, 2014
A lumbering monstrosity of a movie with all manner of preposterous hairstyles and improbable fashions. Worth seeing -- once anyway -- at least as wayward legend.
May 05, 2008
[A] general muddle.
February 09, 2006
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity.
October 06, 2014
Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op.
March 11, 2016
...a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman.