Stanlio e Ollio

Guy Lodge

Stan Laurel, the slimmer British half of Hollywood double act Laurel and Hardy, was not one to wax lyrical about the art or mystique of comedy: "You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly," he said, making vaudeville performance sound altogether as methodical and prosaic as shopping for groceries. No matter how ebullient their joint mugging, Laurel and Hardy's slapstick routines were work, not play. In "Stan & Ollie," a gently elegiac portrayal of the pair's final comic collaboration - a low-rent music hall tour of the U. [...]

di Guy Lodge, articolo completo (5712 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 21 ottobre 2018