Review of A Good Woman (2004) by Lauren H — 18 Mar 2008
Enjoyable. It's nice to see Helen Hunt again, and the supporting cast was effective and charming. Setting a Victorian comedy about the vagaries of moralism in 1930s Italy is a bit suspect, and I fear merely a way for the filmmakers to put elegant clothes on the screen. Shakespeare gets adapted to the Victorian era and the Victorians move up to the flappers. How very odd.
Generally, though, the film worked. While I sometimes wanted to kick both Mr. and Mrs. Windermere in their self-righteous shins, I liked Hunt's performance as Mrs. Erlynne. Tom Wilkinson was perfectly charming as well, and the Wildean one-liners peppered throughout the script brought some much needed levity to what could have been a very dour picture. Oscar Wilde may have done it better, but that doesn't make it less enjoyable.
This review of A Good Woman (2004) was written by Lauren H on 18 Mar 2008.
A Good Woman has generally received mixed reviews.
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