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In 1820s St. Petersburg, artistocrat Eugene Onegin inherits a large estate in the countryside where he meets his neighbor Lensky and Tatiana, a passionate and virtuous girl who soon falls hopelessly under the spell of Eugene and professes her love for him.
With a character as enigmatic and detached as Onegin, you want at least an opinion or a point of view on his actions from the filmmakers, something other than splendor served up frame-by-frame.
Those who might appreciate a solid personal story told with integrity by a director with a sufficient budget to dazzle us with a few scenes that might have come out of "Dr. Zhivago" could do worse than take in "Onegin."
Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.
January 01, 2000
Mick LaSalle
The film's only real flaw -- alas, a substantial one -- is that its pace is too deliberate and gets more deliberate as it goes along.