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Name: The Portrait of a Lady
Released: 1996-1-1
Cast: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan

The Portrait of a Lady

PG-13
2h 26m
1996

48%

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Isabel Archer, a young woman of daring independence and fierce desires, inherits a fortune and travels to Europe in search of adventure. Her independence attracts suitors and schemers, drawing her into a manipulative marriage that tests her ideals and forces her to face a moral dilemma that will decide her future.

Director:

Jane Campion

Producer:

Monty Montgomery, Steve Golin

Writer:

Laura Jones

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Winters, Richard E. Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen, Valentina Cervi, John Gielgud, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

48%

Critics Consensus: Beautiful, indulgently heady, and pretentious, The Portrait of a Lady paints Campion's directorial shortcomings in too bright a light.

Reviews

Loud and Clear Reviews

Joe Flockhart

The Portrait of a Lady is a measured, intelligent film that does not fit expectations of a simple book-to-film adaptation. Campion’s direction is confident and the liberties she takes only strengthen the film’s emotional resonance.

Campion excels at revealing the elements that men don’t see in themselves that women find appealing, while also turning the tables and revealing the darkness of a society where men are always right.

Campion makes an unruly costume drama out of the 1881 novel by Henry James.

The director has a brilliant eye. But she fails to get behind the eyes of her heroine.

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