Beautiful Film, beautiful person Omar Sharif

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2004)

I saw the film Dr Zhivago yesterday. Omar Sharif comes across so pure, so high-minded, so sensitive, a gentleman, the culminations of the Russian recivilization. It is weird to think that the actor is still alive and well, and living in the same city as me, Paris and is now a beautiful elderly gentleman. He appeared on French TV sometime ago and spoke with such intelligence and humanity. It seems that the gentleness, the sweetness, the charm of Dr. Zhivago we see in the film come from the person of Omar Sharif himself. The film does wash away some of the slime and grime of the daily life. It makes me more than ever in love with Russian literature, Russian culture. The film has this beautiful, sad, vast and chilly, poetic edge. A real treat.