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1996
The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 period romantic-drama film directed by Jane Campion and adapted from Henry James' 1881 novel of the same name.
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Jane Campion, only three years after receiving plenty of prestigious awards and rave reviews for her feminist period melodrama *The Piano*, tried to repeat that triumph with her another ambitious period film. She has taken Henry James novel *The Portrait of a Lady*, one of 19th Century American literature's most important books, and adapted it into film that, at the end of a day, turned into failure. Following the b…More