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| | Amazon.com: Jude: DVD: Michael Winterbottom,Christopher Eccleston,Kate Winslet,Liam Cunningham,Rachel Griffiths,June ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In adapting Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure," the screenwriter, Hossein Amini, and the director, Michael Winterbottom, have dropped the obscurity from the title, but the Jude who remains (played by Christopher Eccleston) still looks as dour and defeated as any reader of Hardy could wish. |
 | | Jude, the stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar, is mired in failure from the start; even as you respect the picture for its earth-toned palette and its bestial pain, you know that any dramatic momentum will lead nowhere. |
 | | In Jude, Winslet's sharp, confident and commanding style is given greater range and she comes across with a performance that is full of life, effervescent, delightful, witty, sly, clever, and very expressive, and she looks beautiful doing it. |
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