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WASHINGTON SQUARE
Agnieszka Holland has done a bril-
liant job filming Henry James'
Washington Square, fully the equal of
William Wyler's version (1949), The
Heiress, which has young Montgomery
Clift in one of his best roles and won
Olivia de Havilland an Oscar.
Carol Doyle makes a nuanced
scripting debut as adapter, but it is
Holland's style that immerses and
compels. She opens with a stormy
sprint of camera movement to catch
the instant after a child's birth (and
her mother's death) that hurls us with
lightning candor into the story.
The baby born at the start is
Catherine, sole heir of Austin Sloper, a
wealthy doctor and one of the new-
money lords of New York's
Washington Square. As an emerging
teen, Catherine becomes Jennifer Jason
Leigh's finest performance thus far.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh stars in Washington
Square.

Catherine, buried in sulky moods
and stuffy dresses, is a wallflower
whose "poor prospects" seem to doom
her to her father's tyranny. Believing
himself devoted and protective, Austin
uses her to bolster his bleak egotism,
his smug alienation. Albert Finney as
Austin may be the haughtiest patriarch
since Robert Mitchum in Home From
the Hill. Rich, brilliant, tight as a cork,
Austin is frightening. He can be hate-
ful in his deeds, yet Finney puts a
plaintive anguish in him. His rule of
Catherine is a love so neurotic that,

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