Review of Reversal of Fortune (1990) by Jens T — 03 Dec 2011

Reversal of Fortune is based on the book by the same name by lawyer Alan Dershowitz and tells the story about the real life Von Bulow case where Dershowitz (in this film played by Ron Silver) himself was the lawyer for the accused Claus Von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) who was accused of poisoning his wife Sunny Von Bulow (Glenn Close) who is now in coma, and still was during the release of this film. The story is mainly set on Claus' own flashbacks or reconstructions about the crime. We weirdly enough also get a narrative point of view from the sleeping Sunny who tells us about how she met and married her husband Claus.

My opinion about this film is that's is a movie with good acting performances specially by Jeremy Irons as the charming british lawyer whom we don't really know how to categorize. We don't know if he's innocent or guilty. Ron Silver also does a great performance with his intelligent monologues and all. A wonderful screenplay and a wonderful cast. Thumbs up.