Fifty Shades of Grey
First screened in February 2015
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson. Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden, Eloise Mumford, Max Martini, Callum Keith Rennie, Victor Rasuk, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora. Screenplay: Kelly Marcel (based on the novel by E.L. James). Twitter Capsule:
Two mutually attracted strangers who know themselves well but not what they want. Uneven but not bad. Dakota!
VOR:③
Pushes fewer envelopes than it implies it will, but still (or maybe even for that reason) a valuable litmus for modern views of sex. Also a piquant object-lesson in savvy adaptation.
