The White Countess
(2005)
Directed by James
Ivory this film stars Ralph Finnes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa
Redgrave and Hiroyuki Sanada. During the 1930s in Shanghai a former
Russian countess working in a seedy bar to support her family meets a
blind American that used to be a diplomat.
This is a classic
Merchant-Ivory collaboration mixing romance, period setting and
moral/political commentary. While this may not be the best of the
Merchant-Ivory films it has more than enough going on to entertain
the viewer as well as encourage some though. The cast is good as our
the sets which really invoke the period.
4/5
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