Vanity Fair — screenplay by M Faulk & J Fellowes

[asa book]B0006FO8E8[/asa] See this movie for the wonderful costumes, fantastic historical detail, and photography.

See if it you like Reese Witherspoon; see it for the other beautiful people.

Don’t see it for the acting, which is barely adequate in the best cases and overblown in the worst (Gabriel Byrne, what happened?).

Absolutely do not see it for the plot, which sags in the middle like a mattress in a by-the-hour-motel. I don’t know where the blame lies (Mira Nair, the director, has done some great work in the past), but that doesn’t really matter. The bottom line is, there’s no energy, no wit, and no reason to see what should have been an insightful social commentary but ended up a soggy romance.

7. September 2004 by ? romance stinkers story : plot

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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