December 3, 2008
The dialogue isn't as good as I would've hoped.
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October 14, 2008What a lot of angst about lesbian relationships. Margret falls for Dawes (Selena), but it appears that Dawes is just using everyone to achieve her ends.
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June 24, 2009Eh. After Tipping the Velvet my expectations were a bit too high and was sorely disappointed.
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May 2, 2009It was nothing special but the twist at the end was great and the costumes were stunning. Also is it me or is Zoe Tapper starting to appear in almost everything that is on tv?
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May 1, 2009a women who starts to see women in her local prison, catches the eye of one lady, who seems to have the ability to see and talk to spirits, and finds out she also does, and a friendship forms, but the strict and brutal life inside means something needs to be done, a good little d...( read more)
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April 12, 2009Affinity (2008) is set in the 1870s. It stars Anna Madeley who plays an upper class woman who is grieving due to the death of her father. She decides to became a "Lady Visitor" at a woman's prison. She develops a friendship with a young female prisoner named Selina (Zoe Tapper) -...( read more)
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January 8, 2009I was not too sure I Wanted to see this film. On the one hand, I expected it to be another blatantly pro-homosexual British film, based as it is on a novel by Sarah Waters, one of the most active homosexual public figures in Britain, and the author of "Tipping the Velvet", a raun...( read more)
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December 29, 2008It's quite a beautiful movie. I did not read the book before watching it, nor now, but I was captivated by the story. Beautiful on so many levels.
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December 28, 2008It looks very beautiful (the costumes are great), but the set designers seem to have ignored the point of the panopticon setting. Margaret is perhaps a bit too assertive, Selina perhaps not serene enough, and the subplot of Margaret's proposal offer lessens the pathos of her char...( read more)
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