History · Drama
Evita
Unforgotten, forever loved and adored.
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
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Madonna
Eva Perón
Antonio Banderas
Ché
Jonathan Pryce
Juan Perón
Jimmy Nail
Agustín Magaldi
Victoria Sus
Doña Juana
Julian Littman
Brother Juan
Olga Merediz
Blanca
Laura Pallas
Elisa
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Production
Cinergi Pictures
Robert Stigwood OrganizationReviews
CinemaSerf
6/1012/25/2022
So if you know anything about the history of the rise of Perón in Argentina, and/or have seen the excellent theatrical performance of Rice and Lloyd Webber's "Evita" then you will already have the basis for this really rather poor big screen adaptation of both. Madonna is not much of an actress and though her voice manages the songs well enough, her on-screen persona here just falls flat. She is not helped much by a poorly cast Jonathan Pryce as her president - and frankly rather insipid - husband and by the terribly wooden Jimmy Nail as journeyman singer "Magaldi". Perhaps only Antonio Banderas salvages anything from his authentic characterisation of the narrator "Ché" - but otherwise this is a good looking but lacklustre, episodically constructed, series of musical set-pieces that create
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