Post #2007672

Today I stumbled across a show on PBS about Judi Dench. Well, Judi Dench is amazing, so I started watching it. I found myself put off by watching three men dissect many of her film roles, and gave up halfway through. Yeah, there were no women commentating. I found myself resenting these men talking purely about the acting, and not at all about the 20-year gap between her first films (when she played an ingenue) and the bulk of her film career, where she played an older woman. Not at all about her friendships, or actors she appeared with multiple times. At the point when I turned it off, the experts had covered three movies where she and Maggie Smith had appeared in the same film, and yet there was no mention of that, or of anything besides the acting in the movie. Let's show clips of the movies and talk about how great she was in all of them, but there is no attempt to engage more deeply. What a lousy thing to do in a piece entitled "Discovering Judi Dench".