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The Aspern Papers
Directed by
Julien Landais
2019
90m
R
Drama
4.5
19%
39%
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A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
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Cast of The Aspern Papers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Morton Vint
Vanessa Redgrave
Juliana Bordereau
Joely Richardson
Miss Tina
Lois Robbins
Mrs Prest
Poppy Delevingne
Signora Colonna
Morgane Polanski
Valentina
Jon Kortajarena
Jeffrey Aspern
Barbara Meier
Emily
Alessandro Bressanello
Taylor
Nicolas Hau
The Romantic Poet
Alice Aufray
Young Juliana
The Aspern Papers Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The film is smart, literary, nuanced, slightly stagy - and pedigreed to within an inch of its life. It practically reeks of dusty, yellowed pages and engraved-leather bookbinding.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"The Aspern Papers," brief as it is, needed more of a lightness of touch; if you weigh down melodrama too much, it dies.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
Landais certainly brought little cinematic verve to "The Aspern Papers," telling the story largely in turgid literary voiceover lifted directly from the original source material.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
[A] peculiar and ineffectual film.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
It's like a Merchant-Ivory film - on Quaaludes.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
The drama features opulent production design (the floral arrangements!), providing ample eye candy for fans of period movies.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Exhibits even less of a pulse than a cemetery corpse.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
The words of Henry James have never sounded as leaden and preposterous as they do in Julien Landais's The Aspern Papers.
MovieBabble
Natasha Alvar
I will applaud the movie on one thing; it has made me want to read the book again. Henry James, here I come.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
This isn't very good but for the Redgrave family... They just eat the scenery.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Landais has made a version of "Aspern" that is too often uncertain and unconvincing despite the good work of his female stars.
Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
More lifeless than its namesake's long-dead body.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Richardson is strong enough to survive inept direction, but the rest of the performances range from bad to wincingly bad, including the distractingly modern types on the edges.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Much of this movie, to be honest, is conducted on the level of amateur dramatics, in particular as we stray beyond the bounds of the palazzo.
Bay Area Reporter
Brian Bromberger
The film lacks two elements essential to the novella: suspense and paranoia due to claustrophobic surroundings.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
The psychological suspense and romantic intrigue barely register. The movie's a frustrating missed opportunity.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... never conjures much momentum, failing to translate either the intrigue or the passion from the source material.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
The Aspern Papers has a very stylized, theatrical feel, with Rhys Meyers in particular projecting to the cheap seats. That's not a bad thing, and real-life mother and daughter Redgrave and Richardson also have an understandably believable chemistry.
Film Inquiry
Rob Caiati
Much like the eponymous letters, this period drama is not worth divulging the contents of and would be better off remaining a secret.
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