Sam Steals The Show In Toronto




By Tom Brook
BBC News Online
November 5, 1999

(Abbreviated from full article -- Report dealt with other films besides Sunshine)



Other festival highlights included a tour-de-force performance from Ralph Fiennes in a world premiere of Hungarian director Istvan Szabo's new epic Sunshine. It's an ambitious film that charts the history of a Jewish Hungarian family from the 1860s to the 1960s.

Ralph Fiennes: Star of Istvan Szabo's Sunshine


Fiennes plays three different men from the family - a grandfather, son, and grandson. He admits the prospect of playing three characters was a little daunting but says Szabo was "so meticulous and so specific about what each character was about, I never felt at sea". The Fiennes family was really out in force in Toronto with Ralph's sister Martha making her directorial debut with the closing night feature, the romantic tale Onegin. This British production, which takes its name from a well known work from Russia's national poet Aleksandr Pushkin, not only stars Ralph, but another brother Magnus Fiennes, who wrote the music for the film. Not to be outdone Joseph Fiennes was also represented in Toronto starring opposite Gretchen Mol in an old fashioned melodrama called Forever Mine from director and screenwriter Paul Shrader.





 

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