The Portrait of a Lady
Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: December 24, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
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]
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
The Portrait of a Lady is a huge disappointment. It's a deliberately arty, overly formal exercise in emotional terrorism. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
A harmeless concoction. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
This picture is oddly un-charged, indistinct and even long-winded. Read full review
40
EmpireAngie Errigo
Remote, murky and interminable. Read full review
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