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Slowart
9Apr11
the best ivory-merchant production/ although the sense of place and time is pitchperfect as usual, isabelle and maggie crush ivory's adaptation patterns with their subtly hysterical acting and turn the story of 20s literal decadence into something vague and individualistically scary with no universal message/in one word sublime
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Patricia
8Dec09
I enjoyed this picture more than Heat and Dust. But yet I could not seem to actually like the female character (lead)... I didn't understand why she put herself in such a position. Though, I do know that she didn't have much choice (with the lack of money that she had) but why go around and make things worst. With her false declaration of love to her estranged husband (and proving it was false around the end). But I guess it all came out of desperation, so in that part I know see it makes sense. All in all it is a very interesting film and I thought the ending was good (showing that she has put her self into another situation out of a desperate act into the hands of a stranger once again). James Ivory makes interesting films with interesting characters as proven in this picture.