Jamesian literary tale without the concentration, the ardor, the resonance: an Arab-American academic attempts to secure the co-operation of the family for a biography of a suicided one-book author in Uruguay. A James Ivory film post-Ismail Merchant (d.2005), but still with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to do the screenplay and Anthony Hopkins to anchor the able cast (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laura Linney, Omar Metwally, Norma Aleandro), it is wholly adult, articulate, cultured, and all that, yet somehow becalmed and enervated. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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