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It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
One could write a longish essay on the allusions conjured up by the words Dickensian, Kafkaesque , and Orwellian , yet none of these (among thousands of others) are represented.
Critics are seduced by the Dickensian depths of this Dutch thriller, set in 1920s Rotterdam, about a spiteful father and his resentful bastard son.
Characters like Gault and Grethen are the basis of the standard praise for Cornwell, which is that she has a Dickensian grasp of evil.
Why would a lexicographer snatch up a unique, Dickensian creation, gag him and bind his real persona hand and foot, then slyly stand an impersonator in his place?