Wonderful. Amazing, fantastic, exciting, sad, horrifying. I'd read about the battles in Belgium where the British fought the French under Napoleon. Even this sanitized, beautified, huge-breasted version of history, war is terrible. The dogs, and the flies, and the blood.
The side story, of William (
Rhys Ifans) and Amelia (
Romola Garai), is heart-wrenching and lovely.
I am, even as I write this, placing a request for the
Thackeray's book. I need to know whether the thrall that I've been in for 2 hours is for the story, or the inimitable
Reese Witherspoon. Or, prehaps, the tragic Rawdon Crawley, played by
James Purefoy.
Yes,
Vanity Fair is a wonderful film. I'll not soon forget it.
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