Crimes of the Naïve, Superficial Heart
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Nothing in Paul Schrader’s film “The Walker” can quite match its delicious opening scene of sniping repartee over canasta among three Washington grandes dames and their pet gay playmate. Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas), Natalie (Lauren Bacall) and Abigail (Lily Tomlin) constitute what may be the screen’s most formidable threesome of jaded, dirt-dishing socialites since “The Women.”
Ms. Bacall’s Natalie has the film’s toughest bons mots. Marrying for money, she cracks in her brandied baritone, is the hardest job: “You don’t get the money; you get to look at it. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4360 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 dicembre 2007