Gasping for Breath in a Prison of Gentility
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
In “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” Bryce Dallas Howard ignites like a firecracker, playing an impulsive, emotionally unstable heiress recklessly defying the hidebound conventions of 1920s Memphis high society. This Southern period piece, the first feature directed by Jodie Markell, exhumes an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay, written in 1957, in which Williams returned to realism following the crushing reception of his symbol-weighted stage drama “Orpheus Descending.”
Ms. Howard’s character, Fisher Willow, has the familiar hallmarks of a wounded Williams angel but lacks the tragic dimension of his greatest creation, Blanche DuBois. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4324 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 30 dicembre 2009
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