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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 few months before she reviewed Bloom's book, Merkin wrote a long personal essay for The New Yorker about how much she likes to be spanked.
In The New Yorker , novelist Daphne Merkin complained that Bloom asks for more sympathy than she deserves.
Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."
Others say the film's schmaltzy dialogue and contrived plot have the "staying power of cotton candy" (Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The studio plugs the film.)