Miss Havisham is one of the most indelible characters in the English-language literary canon. Written by Charles Dickens to be outfitted, each day, in the wedding finery that serves as a decaying r…
, this “Great Expectations” is dimly lit and grimly violent, with the chaos and sudden bursts of enmity of Dickensian England brought to the fore. But only Miss Havisham pops off the screen, making this an adaptation lacking in a certain balance.
After all, Pip is a young man relentlessly on the move: To better his social situation, and to win the heart of Estella, who exists at a chilly remove. Brune-Franklin lands upon Estella’s impassivity, but Whitehead feels as if he ought to be pursuing her with a bit more avidity; it falls to Colman to provide the fireworks in the group’s scenes together. She does it well, often seeming to swallow rage and metabolize it into a sort of sickly solicitousness.
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