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FILM REVIEW: 'Vanity Fair' an engaging period piece

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From: University Wire
Date: 20040902
Author:Elaine Kovacs

Elaine Kovacs
University Wire
09-02-2004
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- Oh, what games women play, quietly cunning and thoroughly charming. "Vanity Fair"'s Becky Sharp is the epitome of such a lady. But there is an enduring sympathy for Sharp, played by the bedazzling Reese Witherspoon, underlying the core of her conniving. Balancing both creating a strong female character and condensing William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of 19th century England is managed with stunning ease by the director Mira Nair. Though some of the pieces of the story are at times developed minimally, ...

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