The Golden Bowl
According to costume designer John Bright, Cosprop provided lace and sequined dresses for the principal actresses: 28 outfits for Uma Thurman, 15 for Anjelica Huston and 20 for Kate Beckinsale.,When the merchant delivers the golden bowl to Charlotte, he examines two pictures on the table behind the sofa. As he sets them down, the one on the right (seen from behind it) is placed so that it scrunches up the cloth runner. After Charlotte arrives, and he is explaining the coincidence of the subject couple asking about the bowl, the picture is seen again (from the front) and the cloth runner is smooth, as if recently ironed.,Amerigo: What is it you want from me?
Maggie: I want a happiness without a hole in it! I want the bowl without the crack!,grateful thanks to Lord Tollemache and family; Frances, Duchess of Rutland; The Duke of Northumberland,Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Driven/The Golden Bowl/61*/One Night at McCool's/The Luzhin Defence (2001),Moonstruck
Words and Music by Lionel Monckton
Performed by Madeleine Potter (uncredited) and Robin Hart (uncredited),I'm a sucker for anything set in Edwardian England, good or bad. This is neither. The plot is clever but a little wooly. It takes a while to figure out just who is doing what to whom and why. A father and his daughter each married to the partners in a torrid affair. Rather gives a new meaning to "menage a trois." (Or is it "menage a quatre"?)I don't think even Y&R has tackled this one yet! However the performances are flawless, the settings lush and the cinematography superb. The use in a couple of places of old newsreel footage is especially innovative and interesting but doesn't seem to serve much dramatic purpose. And the symbolism of the golden bowl is a little too obvious and overworked. Nevertheless I liked this movie a lot!,