Fri., Jan. 17, 2003 12:00 AM PST
Is this what they mean by a Woolf in Streep's clothing? Based on a book that is itself an homage to Virginia Woolf's book
Mrs. Dalloway, not much happens here, but boy, is it intense.
Nicole Kidman,
Meryl Streep and
Julianne Moore (who can all, um, book their dates with Oscar now) play three women in separate times dealing with depression at a life-changing moment.
Kidman nose a good role when she sees one, so she glues on a honker and plenty of demented 'tude to play the suicidal Woolf. Moore looks straight out of
Far from Heaven with just as many problems. And Streep is a modern-day Manhattan go-getter who's only alive when caring for AIDS-infected ex-lover Ed Harris. It's super slow-moving to be sure, but that just makes soaking it up all that much more enjoyable...like, well, a good book.
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