A Good Woman (2004)
7/10
Barker honors Wilde
15 November 2006
Using an Oscar Wilde's text makes things much easier, no doubt about it. You gotta be a complete idiot to ruin one of his works. Mike Barker has made an exquisite adaptation of "Lady Windermere's Fan" and the only significant change that he's introduced has to do with time (the 30's instead of the beginning of the century).

Helen Hunt gets into the skin of that marked woman that's the epicenter of tons of rumors and gossip. A free soul in a society that's full of hypocrisy and lies. As for Scarlett Johansson, she's the innocent and young wife that wakes up to that world of lies. There's a big secret between them… Every line of Wilde is like a bullet, every look of Mrs. Hunt is like a thousand lives, every curve of Johansson's body is a mortal sin…

*My rate: 7/10
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