Review of Woman of the Year (1942) by Michael Wilmington for Chicago Tribune — 01 Jun 2008
Woman of the Year certainly has its other auxiliary charms: beautifully textured lighting by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg; a luminous, if limited, performance by Fay Bainter as Tess’s motherly aunt; and some enchanting simulations of soft winter snowfall.
But it’s hard not to feel berated, in a time that’s seeing the resurgence of a pernicious nationalism, by both the film’s anti-feminist slant and its insistent compulsion to put a box around Americanism.
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This review of Woman of the Year (1942) was written by Michael Wilmington and published by Chicago Tribune on 01 Jun 2008.
Woman of the Year has generally received positive reviews.
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