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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Graham Theakston |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 07 January, 1996 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Acorn Media Publishi |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Miniseries |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 054961711796 |
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Customer Reviews of The Politician's Wife
political propaganda Even though this is an entertaining work of fiction, be aware that there is a lot of political propaganda in it. People and groups have words and actions that would never occur in real life. One example is a Christian women's group who refrain from condemning adultery. Another is a man who has never told his wife about his mild romantic horseplay desires. There is a political party that cannot shuffle people between appointed offices.
A Political Morality Tale for All Times
This is one of the great revenge stories of all times. Paula Milne has written the script to a three-part miniseries seen not too long ago on Masterpiece Theatre called "The Politician's Wife." The Minister for Family (of all people) is caught in a love nest scandal. And like a certain President's wife of recent memory, his spouse is expected by The Party to stand behind him. Well, she does-and in the most original way possible. As all the Old Boys rally behind this despicable lowlife, the wife uses that very system of disinformation to get back a bit of her own. Just how she does it and with what results I refuse to say, because I want you to savor this jaundiced view of inner-party workings and how they destroy whatever traces of humanity those concerned might have had once.
Well, this show is now yours for the viewing on an Acorn Media DVD (AMP 7117), and I suggest you grab it. It is due to appear on July 6, 2004; but I wanted to give you lots of warning.
The disgusting conservative minister is played to perfection by Trevor Eve, while the equally evil (but just possibly unwitting bait in the trap) femme fatale is made very believable by Minnie Driver. But the show belongs to Juliet Stevenson as the wife who does what is considered (by men, of course) to be her duty in the most beautiful Iago-like way. My favorite part is the speech she gives to the wives of other conservative politicians, in which she thanks them sincerely for showing her that personal morality and feelings and family and true devotion must all be put aside for the sake of The Party. This Swiftian moment is nearly matched later when she tells someone about how her husband is such an accomplished liar that he has started to believe his own lies-as long as he is still speaking them. Do governments ever really change?
In fact, the only sympathetic characters other than the wife (and that is a matter of opinion) are the two children. All the other male characters are smiling, foul Party-beings to whom "conservative" means nothing more than conserving their power and "truth" means nothing more than the most effective lie that will serve their turn.
The three episodes have a total running time of 187 minutes and every minute is riveting. True to what television executives think the public wants, we get our usual quota of nipple shots (why do these actresses put up with this?) and the F-count is under 10. (Remember when they had to get special permission to say Damn at the end of "Gone With the Wind"?)
There are some film-biogs at the end and an interesting essay by the author that you will have to read off the screen. But the play itself is top-notch. Again, grab this one.
A Rare Treat
Seldom willl a political thriller rise to the level of The Politician's Wife. Having nearly worn out my videocasette version, taped from PBS some years ago, I am overjoyed to see this program finally reach DVD. The story is as watchable today as it was when first shown on Masterpiece Theatre.
The story is old as time, yet fresh and new in the hands of Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve, with the help of an outstanding supporting cast. At first, Stevenson's Flora appears, for all the world, like a mousy political wife. Yet when her husband's [the ironic Tory 'Minister for the Family'] affair comes to light, she reveals new and formidable strength as she moves to seemingly support yet actually undermine her husband's political career. What follows is an engrossing character-driven tale of one woman's ephiphany in the face of a faithless husband and a collection of political operatives who believe they have her where they want her. The truth, you will discover, is something quite different.
Do not miss this one!