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VELVET AND TWILIGHT.(Henry James)
American Prospect, The, June, 2001 by MILLER, KEVIN D.
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The Merchant Ivory film adaptation of The Golden Bowl is principally an exercise in embellishment and the making of spectacle.
Lewis Carroll and Henry James haven't much in common, although the cinematic pursuit of the latter seems a bit like the hunting of the former's mythic, al Snark, "a peculiar creature, that won't / Be caught in a commonplace way." Certainly, the current James season, begun in 1996 by director Jane Campion (The Portrait of a Lady), hasn't yielded much. Iain Softley (The Wings of the Dove) has perhaps come the closest to capturing him, while ...
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