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The goldfinch about5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() We’ve seen this happen a hundred times before, just about always during awards season. ![]() What cast a winding spell on the page has become an occasionally compelling but mostly labored live-action illustration. ![]() Yet what you experience isn’t the book, exactly it’s the strenuous creative labor that went into adapting it. Roger Deakins’ luscious cinematography lends the movie the creamy clarity of a dream. Watching this faithful-in-a-literal-way yet somehow skittery cinematic transcription of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 art-mystery novel, you can tell that the director, John Crowley (“Brooklyn”), and the screenwriter, Peter Straughan (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”), did everything in their power to get the novel up on screen. “ The Goldfinch” is this year’s entry in what has become, by now, a time-honored genre: the high-toned awards-bait literary adaptation that, for all the skill and care and ambition that’s been lavished on it, doesn’t quite work. ![]()
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