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By Isana L (12) on 01 Jun 2007

Very erotic yet without the sex, some very emotional scenes and minnie driver looking as alluring as ever while portraying a jewess quite authentically…

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By Rod S (171) on 30 May 2007

Period drama starring Minnie Driver. Good viewing…

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By Iwan E (1) on 29 May 2007

Hmmmm, not one of the best films ever seen. good for a late night bored and nothing on tv. very obvious plot lines and very slow moving…

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By Robert Dominguez (44) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 22 Dec 2006

Sandra Goldbacher, writing and directing her first feature, is a sure-handed filmmaker. The movie is a tableau of sensuality…

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By Ruthe Stein (335) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 19 Oct 2006

The real wonder becomes how British filmmaker Sandra Goldbacher was able to write and direct such an accomplished, touching and original movie…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 12 Oct 2005

Goldbacher's film is lovely to look at, but the blurry heart of the film only suffers by the comparison…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 Oct 2005

The film is an atmospheric work, a period piece set in the 1840s during the dawn of the Age of Photography with a dense and moody visual style…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Jan 2004

Driver gives a winning performance in a human-scaled story that avoids romantic clichs and gender stereotypes, although a few of both creep…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Jun 2003

The Governess, a surprisingly luminous film that deftly stands somewhere between a Harlequin paperback and Jane Campion's The Piano…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 03 Mar 2002

A beautifully crafted drama set in England during the 1840s about feminine intuition, creativity, and passion…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Variety (12,700) on 28 May 2000

Minnie Driver gets a showy workout in The Governess, a beautifully crafted, if ultimately opaque, study of art, sensuality and outsider status…

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By Peter Henne (51) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jan 2000

Goldbacher, in her first feature, has tied together many ideas about photography, dreams and love, and presented them both fairly and exquisitely…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Oct 1999

Driver, who steadfastly carries Rosina/Mary through every stormy stage of her self-discovery, is consistently better than the picture, as is…

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By Jay Carr (837) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 Mar 1999

Writer-director Sandra Goldbacher, a former BBC documentarian, fills the film with arid pauses, creating a claustrophobic study in ''repression…

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