As Fisk Senior he again excels, delivering a performance of stature and understated power.

Unquestionably Australian, his role in life is vague and Fraser sets him delightfully in a billiard room a woman - who say nothing but lend an air of sensuality otherwise absent in the movie. But it is the story itself that makes Spanley so marvellous. But it is an intelligent, kind and gentle movie, with a lovely tale and a message about the glories of dogs and baying at the Moon. AP The build up nearly dies under Young Fisk’s dull narration until Wrather (Bryan Brown) enters the scene. This leads Fisk to Bryan Brown’s slightly dodgy ‘finder’, the brusque and worldly-wise Wrather. All rights reserved. The Hollywood Reporter is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. His second son was lost in action in the Boer War and his wife died stricken with grief shortly after. by For all the uproarious nonsense of the story -- or "poppycock" to use Horatio's favorite expression -- the effect on audiences is positively sleep inducing.Production companies: The New Zealand Film Commission in association with Screen East Content Investment Fund/Aramid Entertainment/Lip Sync Productions present a Matthew Metcalfe/Atlantic Film Group productionCast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Byron Brown, Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfitt, Art Malik.Director: Toa Fraser.Screenwriter: Alan Sharp.Based on a novel by: Baron Dunsany.Producers: Matthew Metcalfe, Alan Harris.Executive producers: Finola Dwyer, David Parfitt, Simon Fawcell, Alan Sharp.Director of photography: Leon Narbey.Production designer: Andrew McAlpine.Music: Don McGlashan.Costume designer: Odile Dicks-Mireaux.Editor: Chris Plummer.Sales: NZ Film.No rating, 100 minutes. And this somehow inspires the old man finally to give in to his grief over losing a son. Honours go to Neill; it is among his finest performances. A dean recounts tales of his past life... as a dog.

There’s Oscar chatter out there, yet again.

Enjoyment all depends on how far you’re willing to be led by its central play, of a dog reincarnated as a man. The distance of 100 years or so helps with the sheer imaginative stretch that is required at first, but once we’re over that the heart of this story is as poignant and contemporary as ever.

This is not O’Toole’s greatest performance, but he unequivocally forearms the others off the screen with stately grace and ease.

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The dress and period differences just make them easier to realise and watch.

Filial and parental responsibility, war, children lost in action, the inability to communicate and the hard, painful numbing grief of it all are as symptomatic of these times as any other. Dean Spanley was funded by the New Zealand Film Commission and has nothing particularly to do with us. 9:00 PM PDT 10/8/2008 Spanley has a taste for a powerful Eastern European wine, tokaji. It seems it carries him back to a previous incarnation - the essence of the story.

Under Toa Fraser's direction, working from a script by Alan Sharp, this is all done with the greatest solemnity within finely upholstered rooms where everyone is stuffed impeccably into period costumes. Then, like magic, inside a scene or two, Dean Spanley revealed its quirky brilliance. There are no action sequences, no romances; the colours seem washed out and film values are almost mundane. Spotting a dean (Neill) there, Fisk becomes curious about his views and invites him to dinner, during which Dean Spanley hints of a previous life. The Fisks eventually discover why thanks to the tipsy churchman.

While Sam Neill works understated wonders as Spanley, in a role that could easily have tipped into ludicrousness, there are no fantastically deep mysteries to explore individually here, save for the central axis.

A local rich cricket-playing Indian Nawab hosts a talk on reincarnation, attended by churchman Dean Spanley (Sam Neill) and Young Fisk (Jeremy Northam) with his father Old Fisk (Peter O’Toole). Henslowe Fisk and his ailing father, Horatio Fisk, decide to go to a lecture given by the Swami Nala Prash on reincarnation, called ‘The Transmigration of Souls’.

At first, it was ponderous, it was difficult and - for a moment - the idea of walking out was tempting.

Dean SpanleyDirector: Toa FraserStaring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O’Toole.RatedTrailer: Flicks.co.nz. Dean Spanley was funded by the New Zealand Film Commission and has nothing particularly to do with us.

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