I can’t believe I didn’t go back in time to this September 1993 premiere back in 2020, when I was really going deep into the archives for content, especially given that I rewatched The Age of Innocence around that time and, as I noted in a recap of The Gilded Age, IT RUINED ME. It felt slow and boring to me when it came out — when I was 18. It gave me an emotional breakdown as a middle-aged person! It is a beautiful film, one of the best in a genre I refer to as Michelle Pfeiffer Is Extremely Sad in Olden Times. (The other being, of course Dangerous Liaisons.) It’s also perhaps the top entry in the Winona Ryder Does Period Film genre, although obviously Bram Stoker’s Dracula has its own TOTALLY BONKERS charms and who doesn’t love Mermaids? (Those links all go to coverage of those movie premieres. Winona wore something totally bananas to the Dracula event.) Anyway, there are a lot of surprises herein, including DDL’s foray into velvet.
