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| | Eye - The rumour mill - 04.13.00 |
 | | You'll be forgiven for thinking of them as the Lisa and Bart Simpson of their day, but this is a remarkably intense adaptation that, overall, remains faithful to the essence of the original. |
 | | As a novel of a struggling rural family, The Mill on the Floss has long been part of the Marxist canon, and as a study of a woman's repression, it holds an iconic status in feminist criticism. |
 | | Still, that final flood scene reads like a deus ex machina in a script whose pacing is enriched by the slow unfolding of details and psychological insights (although it is foreshadowed through water imagery, stories of witches drowning and a conflict over irrigation laws). |
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