TV review: Mildred Pierce; The TV Book Club
Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce looks really sumptuous – if only there was something actually happening
My local video rental place didn't have a copy of Michael Curtiz's 1945 film Mildred Pierce for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar; and I spent an unsuccessful evening trying to download it (legally, illegally, who knows, surely it's so ancient it doesn't matter?) from the internet. I have seen it but clearly I don't remember it well enough to make any meaningful comparison between it and Todd Haynes's new five-part HBO mini-series version of Mildred Pierce (Sky Atlantic, Saturday). I can picture Crawford, in all the pomp and glory of 1940s Hollywood melodrama, Acting with a capital A.
Kate Winslet's new Mildred is subtler and more nuanced. It's a beautiful performance, of a woman in dowdy dresses struggling to maintain her social status in the depression of the the 1930s. When we first meet her,...
My local video rental place didn't have a copy of Michael Curtiz's 1945 film Mildred Pierce for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar; and I spent an unsuccessful evening trying to download it (legally, illegally, who knows, surely it's so ancient it doesn't matter?) from the internet. I have seen it but clearly I don't remember it well enough to make any meaningful comparison between it and Todd Haynes's new five-part HBO mini-series version of Mildred Pierce (Sky Atlantic, Saturday). I can picture Crawford, in all the pomp and glory of 1940s Hollywood melodrama, Acting with a capital A.
Kate Winslet's new Mildred is subtler and more nuanced. It's a beautiful performance, of a woman in dowdy dresses struggling to maintain her social status in the depression of the the 1930s. When we first meet her,...
- 6/24/2011
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
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