THE WHITE COUNTESS by James Ivory [2005]

Doyle keeps wasting his time and talent with souless hollywood movies. At least there’s a bar scene in this one.

“The White Countess moves with the stately speed of most Merchant/Ivory productions, which is to say too damn slow, but the film is snatched from the jaws of tedium by Doyle’s resplendently lush camerawork and Fiennes and Richardson’s spot-on performances, which echo the heartsick downward spirals of war-torn romances the cinematic world over.”

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