| Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: December 24, 1996 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Campion’s camera captures the sort of things most costume dramas are too fussy to notice: mirrors and windows that bifurcate Isabel’s distressed face; the bleary darkness of her home with Osmond, where the doors close behind her like those of a tomb; a slide into slow motion when one character smells a flower that has been given to her and another character crucially notices.
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Jane Campion makes a beeline for the repressed sexuality, and loses the nuance. [17 Jan 1997]
Intelligent but exasperating, its monotonous tone will wear down even viewers who started out in its corner. [27 Dec 1996]
Ms. Campion has shown a gift for pictorialism -- static pictorialism; she's not a fluid filmmaker - and an abiding fascination with sexual repression. She brings both to this long, slow, distanced version of the Henry James novel. [27 Dec 1996]
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