Synopsis
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."
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Cast
- Helen HuntStella Erlynne
- Scarlett JohanssonMeg Windermere
- Milena VukotićContessa Lucchino
- Stephen Campbell MooreLord Darlington
- Mark UmbersRobert Windemere
- Roger HammondCecil
- John StandingDumby
- Tom WilkinsonTuppy
- Giorgia MassettiAlessandra
- Diana HardcastleLady Plymdale
Recommandations
- 75
ReelViews
The movie succeeds because screenwriter Howard Himelstein keeps Wilde's best lines intact and the actors speak the words with practiced confidence. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Wilkinson artfully deepens a character who in Wilde's original play was rather boobish. It's a marvelous performance in a pretty good film. - 60
Village Voice
Pleasant and undemanding, all the more so whenever Tom Wilkinson's on-screen as a possible Erlynne suitor, the movie miscasts Hunt as the pragmatic seductress. - 50
Rolling Stone
Hunt's flat delivery is mercilessly cruel to Wilde's delicious epigrams. That sound you hear is Oscar spinning madly in his grave. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
While screenwriter Howard Himelstein and director Mike Barker have done a workable job of drawing the Wilde social satire out of the drawing room, the film never quite manages to travel at the same buoyant velocity as the acerbic wit. - 50
Variety
Has a script that plays more like a period romancer studded with occasional Wilde-isms and gets uneven treatment from a mixed Anglo-American cast. - 50
The A.V. Club
The trick to staging Wilde is to hint at the gravity beneath the witticisms. A Good Woman barely even gets the witticisms out, though it does contain Wilde's line about people being either tedious or charming. - 50
Chicago Tribune
A tedious picture, redeemed in part by Tom Wilkinson's performance as Tuppy--he's the sole cast member who doesn't give birth to every epigram--and by the hats.
