I decided to see the movie to help me get a hold of the novel, because I love Henry James but sometimes he’s too hard and/or obscure for me.
The movie served the purpose well. The level of melodrama is thick, as it is in James, but the intense sense of heartbreak comes through, and intense eroticism seems true to James, though in James it’s unstated. The love-making scene at the end was unexpected, shocking, and fun.
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