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Jan 1, 2001 · Desperate Characters was adapted as a film of the same name in 1971 with Shirley Maclaine playing Sophie Bentwood. Maclaine’s performance was lauded by critics, but the movie disappeared, one of many released in the early ‘70s whose idiosyncrasies failed to resonate with a wide audience. Paula Fox was born in 1923 in New York City.
Jul 13, 2022 · T Book Club is back for a novel take on N.Y.C.’s five boroughs with four iconic reads. Join us virtually as we discuss Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters,”with N.Y.C.-based author Sigrid ...
0. Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving ...
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Jul 1, 2008 · Desperate Characters is certainly not a film for those who need slam-bang action sequences or conflict spelled out in terms of good guys versus bad guys. For those willing to experience characters through their dialogue (and their silences), this is a widely undervalued gem that sums up the beginning of the independent film movement brilliantly ...
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Mar 9, 2017 · After Fox's death last week, Alexandra Schwartz revisits the writer's best-known novel, published in 1970, which has a lot to say about our present time.
Synopsis. Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn ...
