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- Starring: Nick Nolte
- Summary: While ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferon (Nolte) starts a relationship with slave Sally Hemmings (Newton).
- Director: James Ivory
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 22
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Mixed: 15 out of 22
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Negative: 4 out of 22
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75But, as with any other Merchant Ivory film, this one provides pleasures beyond the ordinary. [07 Apr 1995]
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60Overshadowed by its own ambition and not-quite-ironic pageantry, Jefferson in Paris doesn't quite come to life.
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30So what exactly is the point? Does Jefferson's treatment of Sally Hemings establish his racism or his instinctive color-blindness? Unfortunately, the picture is so unfocused and tumbles so rapidly from one event to another that it's difficult to tell.