I’m not a huge fan of A.S. Byatt (don’t hit me), and I only mildly liked the book, so don’t be surprised that I only mildly liked the film. As in the book, I thought the modern day romance between Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Roland (Aaron Eckhart) was far more interesting than the Victorian romance between Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle) and Ash (Jeremy Northam). Nice 1860s costumes, but nothing to make me jump up and down.
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A very thin, almost-terrible adaptation of Byatt’s novel. I thought Ehle was badly cast in the first place and her character so underwritten that the whole movie lost any emotional impact it might have achieved.