This afternoon Debbie and I went to see The Last Station, which was mentioned in an earlier post. The review linked to there is probably right about Tolstoy's being portrayed in the film as "as a kindly, generous old lion of a man." But I don't think "the Sonya we see is the manipulative, Machiavellian, and altogether intolerable person she apparently was in her husband’s final years." That isn't the impression either Debbie or I had of the character portrayed by Helen Mirren. Good though Plummer is - and he is, in fact, great - the movie is Mirren's. And there is nothing intolerable about her Sonya.
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