Review of Vanity Fair (1932) by Ken Fox for TV Guide — 31 Aug 2004
It comes as a huge disappointment, then, that having cast Witherspoon as Miss Sharp, director Mira Nair and Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) were unable to resist that impulse to find 21st-century prototypes in 19th-century literary characters, fictional creations whose values lie not in the way they reflect our own narcissistic times, but the way they reveal so much about their own.
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This review of Vanity Fair (1932) was written by Ken Fox and published by TV Guide on 31 Aug 2004.
Vanity Fair has generally received mixed reviews.
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