The Golden Bowl (2000)
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman, Nick Nolte, Kate Beckinsale, James Fox, Anjelica Huston
Synopsis:
A penniless Italian prince renounces love to ally himself with a wealthy American heiress, but his former lover marries with his widowed father-in-law to be near him.
Review:
Late Henry James represents a return to well-trodden terrain for the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team, and they assemble the customarily glittering cast, props and locations. However, while the central affair momentarily catches fire, it has inevitably to end in a whimper; in contrast with the historical prologue of dancing shadows, this literary adaptation offers plenty of hushed exchanges in closeted rooms, but the closing faux-newsreel montage seems short cinematic change.
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman, Nick Nolte, Kate Beckinsale, James Fox, Anjelica Huston
Synopsis:
A penniless Italian prince renounces love to ally himself with a wealthy American heiress, but his former lover marries with his widowed father-in-law to be near him.
Review:
Late Henry James represents a return to well-trodden terrain for the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team, and they assemble the customarily glittering cast, props and locations. However, while the central affair momentarily catches fire, it has inevitably to end in a whimper; in contrast with the historical prologue of dancing shadows, this literary adaptation offers plenty of hushed exchanges in closeted rooms, but the closing faux-newsreel montage seems short cinematic change.
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman, Nick Nolte, Kate Beckinsale, James Fox, Anjelica Huston
Synopsis:
A penniless Italian prince renounces love to ally himself with a wealthy American heiress, but his former lover marries with his widowed father-in-law to be near him.
Review:
Late Henry James represents a return to well-trodden terrain for the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team, and they assemble the customarily glittering cast, props and locations. However, while the central affair momentarily catches fire, it has inevitably to end in a whimper; in contrast with the historical prologue of dancing shadows, this literary adaptation offers plenty of hushed exchanges in closeted rooms, but the closing faux-newsreel montage seems short cinematic change.