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Article: IRRECONCILABLE ACTING STYLES MUDDLE 'LE DIVORCE' FILM CAN'T FIND ITS IDENTITY, DESPITE FINE PERFORMANCES BY SOME OF ITS LARGE CAST.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 15, 2003
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Byline: Robert Denerstein
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory seemingly find it difficult to deal with anything that isn't recognizable as costume drama.
Let's face it. Many of us hate to see a Merchant/Ivory movie don contemporary garb. The disastrous Slaves of New York, for example, was enough to make us long for the leather-bound ironies of Howards End.
I found myself experiencing such yearnings while watching the Merchant/Ivory team again try its hand at a contemporary novel, Diane Johnson's Le Divorce. Johnson's 1997 novel brought a modern gloss to a Henry James-style clash of Old and New World ...