16 - North Shore News — Friday, December 3, 1999

CINEMA SHOWTIMES

@ Park & Tilford Cineptex
200 — 333 Brooksbank, North Vancouver (985- -3911)
Anywhere But Here (PG) — 1:10, 3:45, 7:25, 9:5 55 p.m.
gma (18A) — 9:45 p.m.
y tacos Beauty (14A) — 12:45, 3:20, 7, 9:35 p.m.
The Bone Collector (14A) — 1, 3:40, 7:15
Being John Malkovich (14A) — 1:55, :
: Lights Fade (subject'to classification) — 1:15,
9:40 p.m.
End of Days (18A) — 12:30, 3:25, 7:10, 9:50 p.m.
& Esplanade 6 Cinemas
200 W. Esplanade, North Vancouver (983-2762)
The World Is Not Enough — Mon-Thu 7, 9:55 p.m.
Fri/Sat/Sun 1, 4,-7, 9:55 p.m.
The Insider — 8:30 pm
Toy Peri 2 — Mon-Thu 7:20, 9:45 p.m. Fi /Sat/Sun 1 1 :40,
4:25, 7:20, 9:45 p.m.
Toy Story 2 —- Mon-Thu
6:45, 9: 12 p.m.-Fri/Sat/Sun
110, 3:50, 6: 245, + 95 p Sp p.m.
leepy Hollow M1.
Pokenion — Mon-Thu &: 250
p.m. Fri, Sat/Sun 20,
6:50 p.m ;
Sleepy Holfow
315, 9:55 p.m, Fri/Sat/Sun .
230. 7:15, 9:58 p.m. .

* NORTH Van videographer .
Jacqueline. ‘St. Jacques

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Foes The Land

plus | Sat/Sun l: 35, 4: 20 ; p.m.

how on Wed, Dec. 8 and

Rozema’s Auste

% Mansfield Park kkk
Directed by Patricia
Rozema. Starring Frances
O’Connor, Jonny Lee
Mifier, Embeth Davidtz,
Alessandro Nivola and
Harald Pinter,

Julie Crawford

' Film Reviews

“RUN mad as often as
you like, but never

faint.” This is the spir-

ited credo of Fanny

> Price, a girl living
- Jacqueline St. Jacques .

above her station in
Patricia Rozema’s adap-

tation of Jane Austen’s
Maasfield Park,

Fanny (Frances O'Connor, i

king like 2 young Sally. -

« Field) is sent to ven with her

aunt and uncle, Lady and «
Lord Bertram, when her par-.
ents cau no longer cope with -
‘ nine children.

. Despite initial protests that

Fanny might tempt the affec- °°
tions of her male cousins Tom.’ :

-and Edmund (Jonny Lee.
Miller), it’s decided that “she
_ will never be more to cither
than a sister.”

However; Edmund and*

Ey form a strong bond,

_ and Fanny is heartbroken
when newcomer. Mary

‘> Crawford (Embeth Davidtz),

along with her. brother Henry
‘©. Nivola), arrive on

cps of.
.. courtship and engagement fol

low among the players, Fanny
herself having unwittingly

become the object of Henry's ~

atteritions.
There has been much talk

about how “modern” this ver-

sion of Mansfield Park is.
Canadian director Rozema
used information from
Austen’s journals and biogra-
phies in addition to the novel .
itself, culling characters and .
paring down the plot uatil she
found a mixture suitable to
bring.to the screen. ;
But the result, though °

.. entertaining, is not very origi-
"nal and may disappoint both :

modern viewers and Austen”

heroine, Fanny, is

unduly opinionated for a poor

relation, and her adopted fam-

ily i is 100 obliging. In reality

"she would have been sent back’ :

for fear of influencing her
female cousins’ Maria and Julia:

Henry’s character is fleshed |
out to the point where we
think Fanny is foolish not to
marry him, which puts the’
film on dangerous ground:
Austen novels rely our sympa
thy for the heroine

There are other modern --

tes that seém out of sync

wath the rest of the story, Th
subject of slavery, for ‘example

’ is given greater prominence
. than in the’ original novel.

Many of Jane Austen’s cor-
temporaries enjoyed a lavish
lifestyle as a direct result of °.:

Slavery. But in order to appeal

to a modern audience, charac

"ters aré given 2 stronger aboli

Crawford toware

“pie ven 4 slightly homoerdy
nt; and the lust

‘Maria and ney is

Foinponing)
" juncomfortal fe with dia:

ue.
- (Simon Magus, Sinden’ East)
is: a bition

trying'to 3

sentiments of Auisten’ charac