![]() ![]() ![]() Constantly clutching their mobile phones and taking both sly and overt verbal digs at each other are Maisie’s parents, played brilliantly by Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan. It’s the story of a thoroughly modern, mean divorce set against a rock’n’roll New York backdrop. A number of his stories have been made into films over the last forty years, notably The Portrait of a Lady starring Nicole Kidman and The Golden Bowl starring Uma Thurman (I didn’t care for the movie version of Washington Square starring Jennifer Jason Leigh at all, nor The Wings of a Dove starring Helena Bonham Carter).įilm directors generally stick to the period piece when bringing James’s stories to the screen although all that changes with What Maisie Knew directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. James is without question my favourite classic author. I’m doing that again with the recent movie adaptation of the Henry James classic, What Maisie Knew. When I posted a book versus film review of Gatsby I copped out and didn’t pick one over the other. ![]()
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