A Good Woman
First screened in February 2016
Director: Mike Barker. Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers, Tom Wilkinson, Milena Vukotic, Diana Hardcastle, John Standing, Roger Hammond, Giorgia Massetti, Shara Orano, Augusto Zucchi. Screenplay: Howard Himelstein (based on the play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde). Twitter Capsule:
Never quite sparkles and doesn't convincingly darken. Hunt, miscast, does try. Despite these flaws, still kind of fun.
VOR:②
Wilde adaptations are rare nowadays, as are any films in heightened theatrical idioms. Rarer still are movies that put up interesting fights against apparent miscasting. But beyond that...
