I can only add to the only other review here (with which I completely agree), that this is a sad waste of time, talent and money.
How so much effort resulted in a trivial and virtually inept outcome is beyond me. Didn't the writer read the book?
Having read the novel when I was 7 or so (I was quite quick to pick up on great literature), then this fiasco of an adaptation was a massive disappointment.
My major gripes are as follows: 1. The music is great, but completely out of context. Shut those violins up, please! 2. The acting on the whole is wooden, stilted and annoying. The housekeeper gave the only performance of note.
3. Don't mess with Henry James's whole point of the novel, changing it (I assume) to target a younger audience who have the attention span of a goldfish.
Ach. It was simply rubbish.
Cheers, Will
How so much effort resulted in a trivial and virtually inept outcome is beyond me. Didn't the writer read the book?
Having read the novel when I was 7 or so (I was quite quick to pick up on great literature), then this fiasco of an adaptation was a massive disappointment.
My major gripes are as follows: 1. The music is great, but completely out of context. Shut those violins up, please! 2. The acting on the whole is wooden, stilted and annoying. The housekeeper gave the only performance of note.
3. Don't mess with Henry James's whole point of the novel, changing it (I assume) to target a younger audience who have the attention span of a goldfish.
Ach. It was simply rubbish.
Cheers, Will