| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Ted Prigge |
| Director: Des McAnuff
Writers: Lynn Siefert and Susan Tarr (based on the novel by Honoré de
Balzac)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly MacDonald, Aden Young, Hugh
Laurie, Bob Hoskins, Toby Stephens, Geraldine Chaplin more |
| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Joy Wyse |
| In the musical/movie "The Music Man" reference is made to the works of
"Balzac". His novels are thought of as scandalous and should be banned
from the River City Library. I can see why. But in today's less
sheltered society, this is very entertaining....more |
| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Joy Wyse |
| In the musical/movie "The Music Man" reference is made to the works of
"Balzac". His novels are thought of as scandalous and should be banned
from the River City Library. I can see why. But in today's less
sheltered society, this is very entertaining....more |
| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Seth Bookey |
| *Cousin Bette*, to date, has been reviewed by only two other
rec.arts.movies.reviews critics. One, a Marxist, loved it, and the other,
a Balzac purist, hated it. Both are right. *Cousin Bette* is the
cinematization of one of Balzac's last novels. The...more |
| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| So what has happened to Jessica Lange. Her acting in her last
project, the atrocious HUSH, was ridiculously off-the-wall, and her
work in the one before that, A THOUSAND ACRES, wasn't much better. Her
new picture, a screen adaptation of the great...more |
| Cousin Bette Review |
| by Louis Proyect |
| Nearly all of Balzac's novels dramatize Karl Marx's observation in the
Communist Manifesto that "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the
family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into
a mere money relation." Des McAnuff's film...more |
