Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Released: 2004-9-1
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai

Vanity Fair

PG-13
2h 20m
2004

51%

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Reese Witherspoon gives a vibrant, captivating performance as one of the greatest female characters of all time, Becky Sharp, in the new, sumptuous and sexy epic from acclaimed director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). It's a dazzling ascent up the social ladder as vivacious Becky schemes and seduces her way to the top - until love and romance threaten to get in the way! Join her daring adventures that prove all is fair in love and war.

Director:

Mira Nair

Producer:

Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti, Lydia Dean Pilcher

Writer:

Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet, Julian Fellowes

Cast:

Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Geraldine McEwan, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

51%

Critics Consensus: A more likable Becky Sharp makes for a less interesting movie.

Reviews

Cinema Crazed

Emilie Black

The film is one that gains from being viewed multiple times over the years and that has aged beautifully well.

The brilliance of Nair's vision is how she takes the images, references, and suggestions of India latent in the original text and brings them to the ultimate fore.

Directed by Mira Nair, although sumptuous in scope thanks to the sets and costumes, the film is convoluted and confusing.

Hardly high-drama, but it's gently satirical and arguably represents the spirit of Thackeray's mischievous attitude to high society better than Kubrick's overwrought Barry Lyndon.

Olivia Cooke's interpretation is probably the best Becky Sharp yet: She's intensely charismatic, with a little more bite, and toes the line between being faithful to the book and teasing out more modern feminist themes a little more smoothly.

March 4, 2019

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