Word: wessex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's direction is, on the whole, intelligent and, unexaggerated. Director Oded Salomy avoids the difficulties posed by the script's Britishisms by setting his version in Boston rather than Pinter's London suburbs. The two lovers meet in a house in Belmont, instead of Wessex, and the two men bring speakers to Harvard and Yale, not Oxford and Cambridge. The flat does not need Hoovering, it needs vacuuming...
...frightened by his own demons, Hardy kept a decent distance in his life from all whirlwinds. He spent the better part of his days in the upstairs study of an ugly, respectable villa called Max Gate. Even his walks into the Dorset countryside-referred to as Wessex in his novels-tended to be circumscribed: the strolls of a suburbanite. Visitors expressed surprise at his pallor...
...emerges from his endless version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles with a sense that one could have read the book in a shorter span and had more fun too. There is no question that Polanski's images-with Brittany doubling for "Wessex"-are frequently striking. He does less well by Tess, the poor doomed girl who, forced to rise above her station by family ambition, is ruined by a rascally wastrel and then misunderstood by the prig to whom she gives her heart. Everyone the director sets to moving through Wessex clumps along...