Un amore senza tempo

Sustained in Death by the Memory of One Great Love

At first, second and final glance, Susan Minot’s Evening, a claustrophobic 1998 novel about a woman in her 60s remembering the days and few torrid nights of her life while slowly, very slowly dying, doesn’t seem as if it would translate easily to the big screen. It hasn’t. Stuffed with actors of variable talent, burdened with false, labored dialogue and distinguished by a florid visual style better suited to fairy tales and greeting cards, this miscalculation underlines what can happen when certain literary works meet the bottom line of the movies. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4252 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 Giugno 2007