Oh, man, that poor kid. I’m sobbing already.
Love the cast (I’ll watch Steve Coogan in anything). Hard to imagine this is based on Henry James, but it should be fun to see how that works.
What Maisie Knew (trailer)
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That novel was amazing and raw. So many people dismiss James as a fussy ex-pat american writing about repressed emotions using too many words, but they are wrong.
The most fascinating thing about the book is that everything in the book is only what Maisie knew. We never get background. We never read dialogue spoken when she isn’t listening or in the room. She is very young, and she’s absorbing everything she gets to see and she’s trying to make sense of it. She is also very self-protective.
Probably my favorite work of his and I have read nearly everything by choice. None of it was ‘assigned’ reading.
I don’t see a Mrs. Wix, though…otherwise, yeah, this looks like they are following the bones and sense of the story mostly.
On the basis of this recommendation, I have just downloaded this to my Kindle. Thanks.
Wow. Well, I hope you find it as great as I did. It is the closest to an “experimental” novel as James ever wrote.
It’s not just a brilliant novel, it remains horribly topical. I’m a Civil Court lawyer, and I deal with a large number of cases involving disputes about the care of children. The central idea of the book-and this is given away on the first page, so doesn’t count as a spoiler-concerns the lengths a truly despcable divorced couple will stoop to to use their child as a weapon, each against the other. I think this book should be required reading in all Law Schools, as a reminder of the real losers in most ”custody battles”-the children.