Mira Furlan Reviews
 
   
 
  • "For his production of Gloria, Paro chose a much promising young actress Mira Furlan who represents that rare and valuable combination of impeccable technique and sincere emotions."
    NIN, Belgrade, 1980 (Dubrovnik Theater Festival)

  • "Mira Furlan as Ophelia in Menzel's Hamlet was the absolute star of the last night's premiere."
    Delo, Ljubljana - Politika Expres, Belgrade, 1982

  • "The delicate and emotional portrait of a woman who dares confront the tradition and customs in order to liberate herself was delivered by the extraordinary Mira Furlan who was last seen in When Father Was Away On Business."
    Premiere, France 1987(Beauty of Vice)

  • "Two films were the launching pad to an outstanding series of 18 features which make up the first stage in the brilliant career of this highly educated and acknowledged stage actress : When Father Was Away On Business and Beauty of Vice. Mira Furlan is a Yugoslav superstar."
    Film and Video, Austria, 1987

  • "Mira Furlan, Yugoslavia's Number One actress, is known internationally for her role in the winner of the 1985 Golden Palm at Cannes, When Father Was Away On Business. In 1986, she received the highest Yugoslav screen award - the Golden Arena - at the annual National Film Festival in Pula for her creation in the film Beauty of Vice."
    Le Soir, Belgium, 1988

  • "Much of the charm of the film has comes from Furlan, its leading lady, rising star of Yugoslav cinema and one of its most versatile players."
    Variety, USA, August 10, 1988
    Pula Film Festival, The Beauty of Vice

  • "The secret in her success - it seems - is her extraordinary versatility and the ability to participate with equal proficiency in tragedies as well as comedies, in classic as well as avant garde theater. In addition, she has been blessed with a powerful voice which she controls with facinating mastery. She exhibits an authentic charm and vigor that are reminiscent of some American actresses such as Meryl Streep and Jessica Lange."
    Vikend, Zagreb, 1988

  • "By and large, the success of Ansky's Dybbuk is the direct result of the fine acting of Mira Furlan. Thanks to her unique presence and unusual face - where beauty encounters spirituality, sensuality blends with sadness, and tranquility with passion - she managed to breathe life into the character of Lea"
    NIN, Belgrade, 1989

  • "However, we must admit that the most brilliant interpretation in Shaw's Devil's Disciple was that of Mira Furlan. The Primadonna of the Croatian National Theater has made a come-back to her home theater as Judith Anderson, a sentimental and chaste soul who cannot resist the temptations of the devil of love"
    Studio, Zagreb, 1989

  • "As Natalya Petrovna in Turgenev's A Month in The Country, Mira Furlan, a true champion of theater, manages to convey the many stages of the complex process of falling in love and correlated growth of the moral pressures with facinating meticulousness and attention to detail."
    Start, Zagreb, 1990


  • "The memorable creation of Mira Furlan is the warrant of this play's success in the future. In her role of Natalya Petrovna, Mira Furlan expressed all the internal conflicts and traumas of a woman who happens to love the wrong man. She managed to present the full spectrum of psychological states - from resignation to frustration and despair; her performance was well worthy of an actress who is the pillar of our national theater's repertoire."
    Vecernji List, Zagreb, 1990

  • "Tanya Savinich is an imperious witch in Mira Furlan's fine realization of the role... It would be easier to laugh at Tanya throughout if Ms. Furlan did not so successfully let one sense in her the presence of an emerging tragic character."
    New York Times 1999 (Cranes)
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
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