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Rowan Atkinson gets top-billing in this carefully paced black comedy, but the film really belongs to two of England’s finest women actors of the moment: Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. It is their performances, rather than the mannered English humour, that make this film worth seeing.
Scott Thomas is Gloria, the frustrated wife of a […]

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After the novel was such a runaway success, it comes as no surprise to find this story on the big screen. The choice of Rob Marshall as director however, raises a question or two: it’s a long way from toe-tapping Chicago to the subtle world of Japanese geisha. But then again, maybe not for Hollywood. […]

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