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Exotic touch to Vanity Fair
From: The Malay Mail
Date: 20050122
Author:Reviewed by Lim Chang Moh
VANITY FAIR (social satire) (U) GSC and TGV circuits Time: 136 minutes Rating: *** LONDON society of the 19th Century is not an era you want to be in - unless you are an aristocrat or royalty.
It is worse if you are a woman and an orphan from the working class.
To get out of the rut of drudgery and poverty, the best option for an educated woman would be to become a governess and marry an aristocrat.
Rebecca Sharp, the heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic, Vanity Fair, wants more out of life than her social status permits. She plans to use her beauty, wit and cunning to get what she ...
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