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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011) short review

Kendra April 30, 2011
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2011 The Crimson Petal and the White

I tried to read the book and found it ponderous, wordy, and just plain unexciting (I mean, how many descriptions of a prostitute with eczema can one read?), so it’s saying something to say that this was really quite fabulous! Romola Garai plays Sugar, a prostitute with a little something special — but weird special! She falls in with a well-off businessman (played by Chris O’Dowd, which if you’re a fan of the British comedy “The IT Crowd,” you will be just as freaked out by as me — he’s quite good in both parts, but MAN are they different!) who has a wife with some serious issues (unhelped by him and a REALLY freaky doctor). Okay, point is they hook up, shack up, and then complications arise when Sugar gets to know the wife and their child…

Really great Dickensian settings, great but appropriately dark bustle-era costuming, and some faaabulous makeup design (particularly on Gillian Anderson as the aging madam). The ending was kind of strange to me, but I’m assuming it’s true to the novel.

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