Notes from a small island A weblog by Jonathan Ali |
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Having dreaded the prospect of “Sylvia,” I admired it precisely because it refuses to play along with the mythologizing that has sprung up, and vulgarized, the lives of two poets. The film neither raises Plath up nor cuts her off at the knees, and, at the eleventh hour, it even permits us to smile at her plight. “You must think I’m a stupid American bitch,” she says to a kindly old neighbor in London. “Not at all, my dear,” he replies. “I assumed you were Canadian.” -- From Anthony Lane's review in the New Yorker of Sylvia, the biopic of Sylvia Plath, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. posted by Jonathan | 11:51 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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