![]() ![]() She rescued him from a freak show situation where he was daily abused by his carers all because his face was disfigured. But unknown to Christine the kindly Madame Giry also offered refuge to Erik many years earlier when she herself was a young girl and when he as a young boy was shunned by society and laughed at as a freak. ![]() The orphaned Christine Daa was brought up by Madame Giry played by Miranda Richardson. Throughout the film Rossum performs her own songs and she does it very well too with a delicacy complimenting the age she is meant to be. ![]() Erik mysteriously tutors Christine the beautiful young soprano in the dungeon like cavernous depths of the Opera Populaire and as he does so, he falls in love with her. She is an orphan girl being secretly trained to sing as an opera soprano by the Phantom called Erik, played by Gerard Butler. The film timing was good and I left the cinema feeling as if I had been entertained.Ĭhristine Daa is perfect as the ingenuous heroine played by 18 year old Emmy Rossum. Set in 1870 Mid-Victorian Paris it is full of familiar music and graceful costumes making a spectacular musical extravaganza. The long awaited PG13, 2hrs 23 minutes film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is an enchanting, dramatic, suspenseful and sad film. Short Review of Costume in The Phantom of the Opera ![]()
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