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Middlemarch (1994)
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5 August 2021 - 2 out of 3 users found this review helpful.
I'm reading MM for about the 5th time - agreeing with whoever it was who said it's one of the really great 'grown-up' novels.
I looked up the TV movie as well (first time since it was released) and it holds up wonderfully well - mainly because it sticks to well to the text - or at least to a stripped-down version of the text. Almost all the characterization is first-rate.
The only thing that gave me pause was Patrick Malahide. A fine actor, but he struck me as both too young and too 'human' for Casaubon; in fact rather 'acting' the part of an older man and a monster of egotism. Can one imagine him writing that truly appalling letter of proposal to Dorothea? I don't think so.
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