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‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’ Review: Bill Condon’s Film Version Brilliantly Reinvents Broadway Musical And Finally Gives Jennifer Lopez The Role She Was Born To Play – Sundance Film Festival
A review of 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman', Sundance premiere of Bill Condon's new take on the Broadway musical starring Jennifer Lopez in the title role
With this 2025 screen incarnation of the Kander/Ebb show, director and screenwriter Bill Condon has gone back to Puig’s novel to realize its original intent as a love story, now being able to be told without restraint, a key part to its emotional power and truth for contemporary audiences. Equally adept at the musical requirements doubling as Nesbit, he is heartbreakingly good as a movie-mad young gay man living in his fantasy world in a repressed society, but also finding love where he least expected it and against all odds. After a year filled with intriguing musicals from Wicked to Emilia Perez, Bill Condon carries on the tradition of a genre he has mastered before on a larger scale with Dreamgirls, Beauty And The Beast, and screenwriter on Chicago, now demonstrating it is still fresh and alive and relevant even on the budget of independent filmmaking.
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