The Golden Bowl

Name: The Golden Bowl
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: April 27, 2001
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman

2001

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Lionsgate | Release Date: April 27, 2001 | R

Starring: Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman

Summary: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Thurman and Northam), areAn intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Thurman and Northam), are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit. (Lions Gate Films)… Expand

Director: James Ivory

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 130 min

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Joe Morgenstern

The team's (Merchant-Ivory) best adaptation yet of a Henry James novel.

Stephen Holden

If this handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation of the novel doesn't leave you devastated, its ominous sense of a rarefied moral and aesthetic world bending before the accelerating streetcar of history will leave you with a mournful sense of loss. Read full review

Steven Rea

If The Golden Bowl -- isn't charged with electric emotion, well, that's not what Henry James or James Ivory is about.

Marrit Ingman

If it's not perfect, it still gives pleasure to the eye. Read full review

Lisa Alspector

This early-1900s costume drama surely differs from Henry James's source novel. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Though it often wallows in louche baroque textures, The Golden Bowl is perhaps the most visually accomplished of the Ivory soaps. Read full review

Michael Sragow

Takes a literary milestone of ambiguity and makes everything about it blisteringly obvious. Read full review

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ReneeD.

Jul 19, 2006

Those who enjoy period pieces will find this movie thoughtful and intriguing. The morés of that era demand the emotional subleties and restraints portrayed in the film and those who do not appreciate the formality of that era will probably find this movie less than engrossing. Apart Those who enjoy period pieces will find this movie thoughtful and intriguing. The morés of that era demand the emotional subleties and restraints portrayed in the film and those who do not appreciate the formality of that era will probably find this movie less than engrossing. Apart from this, the movie was beautifully made and in itself makes this movie worth viewing.… Expand

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