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Article: Jefferson in Paris.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
- Author:
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THE QUESTION with the Merchant - Ivory team is not why they make so many ``worthy'' but shallow and inept films -- that is what they do -- but how sometimes, as in The Remains of the Day, they manage to do better. With Jefferson in Paris they're once again true to form. For all the bustle, visual display, authentic detail, and some good performances, there is a posturing, contrived, ultimately lifeless quality here, a vapidity beneath the razzle-dazzle.
What did the years Thomas Jefferson spent as our ambassador to France mean -- to the two countries concerned, to history, to him? Are we supposed to care about his platonic dalliance with the pretty Maria ...
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