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Article: The Stone Angel
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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The Stone Angel
dir. Kari Skogland
Adapted from Margaret Laurence's Manitoba-set novel, which apparently all of Canada read in 12th-grade English, The Stone Angel has an air of excessive reverence about it, in spite of the filmmaker's boast (in the press notes) that the book has been tarted up for the screen. There's some sexy, yes, but the cinematography is meticulous and lovely, the nostalgia for sturdy prairie values undisguised. Unfortunately, every scrap of grim present-day narrative and flashback from the book seems to have been retained. There's no time to fit everything in gracefully, and the movie is littered with jerky transitions between eras.
Ellen Burstyn plays Hagar Shipley, a ...
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