SummaryAnita Diamant's novel of the same name is adapted into a two-night miniseries that follows the life of Dinah (Rebecca Ferguson), the daughter of Jacob (Iain Glen) and Leah (Minnie Driver), as well as Jacob's other wives: Rachel (Morena Baccarin), Zilpah, and Bilhah.
SummaryAnita Diamant's novel of the same name is adapted into a two-night miniseries that follows the life of Dinah (Rebecca Ferguson), the daughter of Jacob (Iain Glen) and Leah (Minnie Driver), as well as Jacob's other wives: Rachel (Morena Baccarin), Zilpah, and Bilhah.
With Minnie Driver and Morena Baccarin as two of Jacob’s wives, and Debra Winger as Dinah’s blunt-speaking grandmother, the story is engaging both as untold Biblical fable and modern-day television.
The Red Tent would have benefited from more subtlety--hardly Lifetime’s stock-in-trade. Still, it is a major step up from the network’s usual fare of films.
Fans of the novel will no doubt watch and revel in this relatively big-budget treatment. Others might find its pseudo-biblical, pseudo-feminist mix hard to take.
Though chock-full of plot, it is decidedly short on dialogue, there is little narrative transition and, with a few very notable exceptions, no character development.