Word: prejudiceã
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This is the sort of movie where it almost feels as though the person who wrote the second page never read the first. A film where a character can tell a girl that he likes “Pride and Prejudice?? because it reminds him of the hazards of first impressions, and then in the next scene be found rereading the book, explaining “I just met a girl who reminds me of Elizabeth Bennett.” Is he not listening to his own dialogue? The movie often gives that impression...
Carey Mulligan—whose most notable screen credit to date is as one of the minor sisters in “Pride and Prejudice??—shines in her breakout role as Jenny, portraying a wealth of emotion, conflicting desires, and youthful rebellion with the subtlety and intelligence of a much more experienced actress. David’s emotions dictate the tonal shifts of the film, and Sarsgaard lives up to this responsibility with his confident but gradual revelation of his character’s true nature—equal parts sparkling charm, menacing deception...
...believe that American voters have made a huge mistake,” Harvard Law School professor Randall L. Kennedy wrote in a letter printed in The Washington Post on Sept. 14. “And I’ll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice??not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip...
...latching onto its captivating story. But it ultimately succeeds as a film. The prestigious Venice Film Festival already honored “Atonement” in August, and it will certainly be a stronger contender during the awards season than Wright’s “Pride and Prejudice?? was two years ago. —Staff Writer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu...
...Pride and Prejudice,” Wright successfully dealt with the doubly difficult task of interpreting an iconic book and remaking a cult classic film (the BBC version with a famously shirtless, young, and hot Colin Firth). And by any measurement, “Pride and Prejudice?? wasn’t a bad movie, though the final scenes took the romance to nauseatingly clichéd levels with a never-ending sunset kiss that caused my date to walk out of the theatre in disgust. Those who disliked “Pride and Prejudice,” both...