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Affair of the Necklace, The
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for some sexuality
Starring
Hilary Swank,
Simon Baker,
Adrien Brody,
Jonathan Pryce,
Joely Richardson,
and
Christopher Walken
A romantic drama based on the controversial true story of Jeanne De La Motte Valois, a countess whose name was stripped from her by the Royal Family during the late 18th Century. The story of her fight to restore her name and proper place in society is filled with mystery, intrigue and desire, with an infamous diamond necklace at the center of it all. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John Sweet
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Charles Shyer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 25, 2002
Video: June 25, 2002
Theatrical: November 30, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Shyer and Sweet bring consistent clarity and ever-increasing depth to the playing out of Jeanne's bold scheming and single-minded resolve; a tone of brisk wit gives way effortlessly to poignancy and ultimately tragedy.
70
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
It's beautiful and obvious, a dubious combination that may nonetheless ensure its success.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
You may not be able to follow the overall arc of their scheming, but scene by scene they are a delightful crew, hissing away behind their cloaks and fans.
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The affair may have raised eyebrows all over 18th century Paris, but it's not likely to elicit more than a shrug from 21st century moviegoers.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The affair of the necklace itself is so complex and many-sided that it would take a Sidney Lumet to do justice to it on film.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie has almost enough corny appeal to offset its lack of originality, though, and Walken is fun as Cagliostro, the court's great prognosticator and all-around weirdo.
50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Swank is painfully uncharismatic, leaving Christopher Walken, in the minor role of occultist Count Cagliostro, to decamp with any scene in which he appears. His performance may not be historically credible, but it's hugely entertaining: Would that the same were true of the film overall.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Nobody seems to know quite what he's doing in this opulent but fairly empty period fashion show, apart from campy overactors like Christopher Walken and Jonathan Pryce who appear eager to fill the voids left by their colleagues.
50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The best thing I can say about it is that the costumes and the hambone acting keep it from being a deadly bore.
50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Jeanne is no fun at all. This is no fault of Swank, who's caught in the overall confusion of a movie crippled by its ambitions to be both caper and heartfelt melodrama, to say nothing of a cautionary tale about the politics of celebrity in our own culture.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Plays like the cinematic equivalent of a paperback bodice- ripper with embossed type.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The miscast (or misdirected) Hilary Swank's Jeanne takes so little pleasure in coquetry and manipulation.
50
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Rife with wrong people in major jobs, which leads to a movie that lacks the requisite verve to make to it sparkle.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The storytelling is hopelessly compromised by the movie's decision to sympathize with Jeanne. We can admire someone for daring to do the audacious, or pity someone for recklessly doing something stupid, but when a character commits an act of stupid audacity, the admiration and pity cancel each other, and we are left only with the possibility of farce.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Slipshod rather than sly. There's no fury to the movie, repressed or otherwise, which may be why when the Revolution arrives, it has all the impact of a guillotine with a deadly dull blade.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
This sob story is a tough sell.
40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The necklace in this movie was crafted by the elite London jewelers Asprey and Gerrard -- out of cubic-zirconium stones. That's just about perfect. The Affair of the Necklace is a cubic-zirconium epic.
40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Drags and meanders when it wants clarity and clockwork, and bogs down in hazy, vague emotions.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Larceny at its most labored.
30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
L'affaire du collier was a convoluted palace intrigue that Shyer and screenwriter John Sweet don't bother to unpack, crafting instead an endless illustrated Harlequin paperback of mawkish backstory and corset-popping purple prose.
25
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
It's hard to imagine how Shyer and script writer John Sweet could have brought this tale to the screen in a cruder, cornier or less interesting way.
20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A staggeringly misguided stab at making the past come alive by people who have absolutely no feel for period filmmaking. Banal at best and laughable at worst.
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