Title: What Marcel saw
Review: Maybe has-been harlots of the Belle Epoque affected, entre elles-memes, the wit of Wilde characters, which American actors render under direction in fleeting Hollywood Edwardian. The accents come and go chasing the screenplay's segues first to Colette's very different style and then to more modern takes on women's wares and tears, all to dress up and down what two people are deciding nobility obliges. Together Hampton, Frears and Friend keep the tale's surprise. While Lea has been no nanny but doubly nude throughout, a delicately draped performance by Pfeiffer, Friend's dandy shows himself, in retrospect, the moralist at his wit's end. The only touch missing is a real picture of Kathy Bates when she was an ingenue of the first water, as her character in the corps de ballet.
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