Nicole Kidman once again plays a woman with whom many are in love but very few understand. In this film she plays an American woman who travels to Europe to try and discover herself but soon finds out that there is more to life that it has been made out to be before her. She is careful to shun the affections of those she is not attracted to but not wise enough to check if that is where true love truly resides. It isn't until she marries a man named Gilbert Osmond (played by John Malkovich) that she begins to realise that she is nothing but an article in his life. By the time she begins to think for herself again, the time for true love has already passed her by. It's directed by Jane Campion so you can expect all that feminist intonation a plenty in this one.
Review of The Portrait of a Lady
