In James Ivory and Ismail Merchant’s final collaboration, Todd Jackson is a jaded American diplomat in 1930s Shanghai keeping sordid company with a refugee Russian countess (Natasha Richardson) who’s been reduced to prostitution. Kazuo Ishigur (Remains of the Day) wrote the original screenplay. (138 min, PG-13)
Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thewhitecountess/
This article appears in May 24-30, 2006.
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