The Stone Angel

A Tenacious Matriarch Who Won’t Go Quietly

“The Stone Angel,” a film of tightly assembled bits and pieces that don’t fit comfortably together despite clever dashes of magical realism connecting past and present, wants to be a Canadian equivalent of epic soap operas like “Giant” and “The Notebook” and, yes, even “Gone With the Wind.”
Adapted by Kari Skogland, who wrote, produced and directed, from Margaret Laurence’s 1964 classic of Canadian literature, this multigenerational family history has enough gripping moments to hold your attention, but ultimately it leaves you frustrated by its failure to braid subplots and characters into a gripping narrative. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4507 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 11 Luglio 2008