Tulip Fever (2017)

Please don't spend money on this.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The visuals and the feel of the setting was pleasing, but i wasn't taken at all with the acting and some aspects of the story were too heavy-handed. it is compulsively entertaining and fun to watch, but nothing more than that: no complex dialogues, no layered characters, no subtexts. it shoots for an epics but ultimately succeeds only in being a mediocre adaptation of a mediocre hist-fic novel, which i do recommend for a bit of mindless fun; just make sure to turn your critic button off in advance.

British Director Justin Chadwick brings to the screen the novel by British novelist (and here screenwriter) Deborah Moggach, whose genius it was to imagine that the "market bubble" surrounding crazily overpriced tulip bulbs in The Netherlands might make the perfect backing for a tale that succeeds in the effortless blending of farce and tragedy. In real life, the price collapse (bursting of the bubble) came in 1637, though it will not have escaped anybody's notice that tulips have continued to mean big (though not quite THAT big) business for the Dutch through to the present day! Nevertheless, this is a film that strives to recreate that heyday for Holland, and anybody who has spent time in the Dutch art galleries will realise that there is no genre of old Low Countries art that has not been drawn on to create the exquisite, stunning sets and settings that appear in this film. The fruit and lobster on the table - tick, those "Dutch interiors" - tick, the portraits with severe-looking characters just hinting somewhere at erotic needs beneath the surface - tick, the street and canal scenes - tick, those rather austere insides of cathedrals full of verticality - tick, those boisterous Rembrandt-like scenes filled with men with big lumpy noses - tick, and of course those botanical portrayals of tulips themselves - tick! The Amsterdam of that time is rich, bosisterous, imperial, a little unsure of which way it is going and which traditions it needs to ditch on the way; and "Tulip Fever" has used references to both history and art to make a work of art out of itself. This can't be stressed too highly and should leave those who have pushed the average score here down to 6.2 with a great deal of egg on their daft faces!Many will argue that Alicia Vikander is a work of art of herself, and she is the beautiful star of the show here (in the role of Sophia Sandvoort) ... including - rewardingly enough - in some quite erotically-charged scenes. She gains able support from "not-Leo" Dane DeHaan, and from Cristoph Waltz, as the two men in her life - lover and husband respectively. Tom Hollander and Dame Judi Dench also do their usual good work here, out in the wider cast. All gel well together, but the real joy of this film is a complex (one might even say slightly Shakespearean) plot - set against that amazing historical background - which revolves around love, need, greed, money, deceit, honour and kindness ... and yet contrives to be both funny and sad in perfect combination. Particular audience sympathies go out to Cornelis Sandvoort (the Waltz character) - the primary target of Sophia's complex plan to (sort of) give everybody what they want (especially her), but which nevertheless leads to her shed tears and feel little but regret for what she has done. It's a pretty good morality tale, but with a hint of a happy ending.Not everybody likes historical dramas, it's true, but few but the most jaundiced will fail to be impressed by "Tulip Fever" as a gorgeous, vibrant "canvas" on which a deviously-plotted history plays out so very effectively. It's great stuff.

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Tulip Fever took 3 years to be relased and it makes sense to be honest, the dialogue is cliched and horrendous, the characters are bland and boring and the overall romance is terrible plus there was more sex than actual storytelling as well. Also DeHaanand Vikander feel miscasted and have zero chemistry together as for other great actors like Dench or even Supergirl's David Harewood feel out of place. Overall this movie gets a no recommendation from me. (0/10)

Alicia Vikander did good no a little very good. A little bit direction issues, fantastic Script nice cinematography. But all in all at the it was good enjoyable ride.