The House of Mirth |
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Director Starring |
This is one of my five favorite novels, but I’m not overprotective of it. I would love to see a great adaptation — but it would probably need miniseries treatment. This is episodic, rushed, choppy. Anderson is a surprisingly good Lily Bart but we never have time to know her — Selden’s speech about her being a spectacle comes 10 minutes in and is unpersuasive because she seems pretty cardboard at that point. It’s all straight out of Wharton’s text but captures her wit in dialogue only as if reciting Shakespeare; none of the prose is brought to life. AND if you’re only going to whizz by the tableaux-vivants scene, just cut it entirely! Bah, so I’m a little overprotective. Anyway I hated Neon Bible and this was pretty underwhelming — Davies is definitely not a favorite. |
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