The Aspern Papers

Name: The Aspern Papers
Genre: Drama
Released: January 11, 2019
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 28
Cast: Alice Aufray, Barbara Meier, Joely Richardson, Jon Kortajarena, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

2019

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Cohen Media Group | Release Date: January 11, 2019 | R

Starring: Alice Aufray, Barbara Meier, Joely Richardson, Jon Kortajarena, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lois Robbins, Morgane Polanski, Nicolas Hau, Poppy Delevingne, Vanessa Redgrave

Summary: Based on Henry James’s 1888 novella and set in the late 19th Century, The Aspern Papers tells of an ambitious American editor obsessed with the late Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Determined to obtain the letters Aspern wrote to his lover and muse Juliana years earlier, the editor travels to Venice and meets the suspicious elderly womanBased on Henry James’s 1888 novella and set in the late 19th Century, The Aspern Papers tells of an ambitious American editor obsessed with the late Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Determined to obtain the letters Aspern wrote to his lover and muse Juliana years earlier, the editor travels to Venice and meets the suspicious elderly woman along with her quiet niece in their grand but dilapidated palazzo. Assuming a false identity and initially concealing his true intentions, the editor ultimately charms the niece into helping him with his obsession. But when the niece presents him with a condition he can’t accept, the future of the papers and the mysteries they contain hang in the balance.… Expand

Director: Julien Landais

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Moira Macdonald

Jan 10, 2019

The Aspern Papers, brief as it is, needed more of a lightness of touch; if you weigh down melodrama too much, it dies. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Jan 8, 2019

The film is smart, literary, nuanced, slightly stagy — and pedigreed to within an inch of its life. It practically reeks of dusty, yellowed pages and engraved-leather bookbinding. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Jan 10, 2019

Landais has made a version of Aspern that is too often uncertain and unconvincing despite the good work of his female stars. And when the actresses leave the screen and the film ventures into ill-advised flashback territory, things get shakier still. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Jan 7, 2019

It’s when Landais departs from the original, or has a bright idea for expanding on it, that the movie’s troubles begin. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

Jan 7, 2019

Landais certainly brought little cinematic verve to The Aspern Papers, telling the story largely in turgid literary voiceover lifted directly from the original source material. Read full review

David Lewis

Jan 9, 2019

The movie is made even worse with embarrassing flashbacks, painful voiceover, and inane dream sequences. It’s like a Merchant-Ivory film – on Quaaludes. Read full review

Keith Watson

Jan 7, 2019

The words of Henry James have never sounded as leaden and preposterous as they do in Julien Landais’s The Aspern Papers. Read full review

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