The Worst Version of This Movie I Have Seen

May was irritating in the role of the governess. Her mouth was hanging open about 80% of the time, which was extremely distracting. I just wanted to shout "For heaven's sake,shut your mouth!" Her interpretation but for one small doubt, made it easy to believe that the ghosts were in her demented mind, and not in the children's. That one doubt was the behavior of Mrs. Grose who seemed to hint that something was going on before the governess's time, but even that could have been her displeasure at the association of Miles with the unsavory Quint and Flora with Miss Jessel, whose only association with Quint is glossed over as a pregnancy, that I don't remember as having been specified as being caused by him.
Mrs. Grose doesn't see the governess's ghosts. Pam Ferris's Mrs. Grose was not the cozy, grounded housekeeper of the 1961 version, and I didn't care for her.
Colin Firth as the uncle was attached to this version for all of five minutes to draw viewers who crushed on him as Darcy in 1995's "Pride and Prejudice" Personally I never found him particularly attractive.
All in all a dreary unremarkable adaptation. Don't waste your time on this one.


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