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That puffy lyricism, that gorgeous hysteria of escape ("From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon"), that fattened medievalism, that quality of out-Shakespearing Shakespeare, has been hammered by contemporary criticism into harder shape.
[but] there's some passion in the action, a lilt to the chases, a fluid lyricism in the way the beasts move across hapless humans who cross their paths" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). (See David Edelstein's review in Slate and The Lost World site.)
There are passages where Roth, describing the rural New Jersey landscape from within the Swede's benign imagination, produces a fine, sugary lyricism that is not more than 5 percent ironic--a lyricism of white pasture fences and rolling hay fields and the Swede pretending to be Johnny Appleseed, tossing his imaginary seed.
The screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."
A hotshot English theater director (his Cabaret revival is still on the boards in New York), Mendes gives the film a patina of New Age lyricism and layer upon layer of visual irony.