Shown: 7 September 2022
Exminster Film Club Rating: 88%
- Date of release: 2021
- Running time: 2h 36m
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writers: Tony Kushner and Arthur Laurents
- Country: USA
- Language: English
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West Side Story Plot Synopsis
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Film Reviews
This is a West Side Story for both the past and present, as pleasing as the best movie musicals used to be, and as relevant as today’s headlines. It makes you feel like you are actually on the turbulent streets of New York’s west side, not a sound stage.
Rex Reed, Observer
West Side Story is contrived, certainly, a hothouse flower of musical theatre, and Spielberg quite rightly doesn’t try hiding any of those stage origins. His mastery of technique is thrilling; I gave my heart to this poignant American fairytale of doomed love.
Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian