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Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."
The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says the film "underrates our intelligence."
Lee wins praise for his "gently ironic touch" in adapting a novel by Rick Moody, and for being "less interested in assigning blame for all the misery than in simply documenting it" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The movie is plugged here.
"[W]e have a book worthy of its subject--graceful, astonishingly well researched, yet imbued with a sense of flow that is rarely achieved at this level of scholarship," says Daphne Merkin in the New York Times Book Review . (See Sarah Kerr's review in Slate.)
The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says it's akin to "a great nineteenth-century novel that presumes on its reader's infinite patience."