Johnny Depp’s “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol” Reviewed: Ti West’s Dickens Retelling
Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter has reviewed “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol,” director Ti West’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic starring Johnny Depp in the title role and Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
The film retells the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley and the three Christmas spirits and forced to face his past, present and future. The review finds the production design a major asset, praising candlelit compositions in blue tones, and calls Riseborough’s performance powerful, singling out her confrontation with Scrooge as a genuine reinvention of the material. Depp is credited with bringing gravitas to the miser.
The review also flags weaknesses, including slow passages and a caricatured rich-banker subplot, but concludes the film is a worthwhile, above-average holiday retelling.
Related: Dickens Adaptation “Ebenezer” Opens Nationwide November 13, With Johnny Depp as Scrooge
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Photo: 图：狄更斯《圣诞颂歌》1843年初版彩色插图「现在的圣诞之灵」，John Leech 绘，公有领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Illustration: "The Ghost of Christmas Present" from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843), by John Leech, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
