Miss Potter

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c"Life is just one damned thing after another," said Elbert Hubbard, the early 20th century bellettrist and author of the once-famous

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notoriously damned thing, the ocean liner

Lusitania, sunk by a German U-Boat when he was on his way to Europe to try to make peace in the middle of World War I. But he was also right

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Miss Potter. Directed by Chris Noonan from a screenplay by Richard Maltby Jr., the film tends to come up short in the shaping and unity

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Noonan and Maltby have the luminous Renee Zellweger to work with in the principal role and, to my admittedly admiring eye, this makes up for

an awful lot. They also have going for them the near-universal popularity of her character, Beatrix Potter, whose exquisitely illustrated

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many more are fondly remembered remnants of childhood for so many. Yet there is little in the movie about these characters or their creation

apart from the fact that, as we already know, many people admire them.

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parents' class prejudice in order to marry the man she loved, as shown in the film, suffers from the double whammy of being both much too

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Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor), is from virtually the same social class as she is -- as she indignantly points out to her parents. That the big

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inherited wealth must be particularly

baffling to Americans.

Yet in spite of this, the human attachment of these two shy and rather nerdy Britons of a century ago still has an emotional punch to it. At

least part of the reason is the film's success at imaginatively re-creating the moral world -- as well as, to my eye and barring the Microsoft outlook is many people’s favorite.

pollution, the physical world -- of Edwardian England. It's not just that social class is openly and immensely important to people. That's an

inert datum because it answers to nothing in most of us today. It's rather that the idea of romantic love -- which we still have in theory

but which sexual freedom has robbed of much of its imaginative power -- is brought almost shockingly to life again in this respectful re-Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

creation of life before the sexual revolution.