The Aspern papers's reviews
Media reviews
The Washington Post
The film is smart, literary, nuanced, slightly stagy ? and pedigreed to within an inch of its life. It practically reeks of dusty, yellowed pages and engraved-leather bookbinding.
Los Angeles Times
Landais has made a version of Aspern that is too often unconvincing despite the good work of his female stars. And when the actresses leave the screen and the film ventures into flashback territory, things get shakier.
Roger Ebert
Although he?s playing a man of letters, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers swans around the film?s settings with a pout that suggests that he?s waiting for his cue to sing ?Please allow me to introduce myself.?
New York Times
Too bad that the best that can be said about the woeful movie version of the The Aspern Papers, based on the Henry James novella, is that it might send you running to the original.
The New Yorker
It?s when Landais departs from the original, or has a bright idea for expanding on it, that the movie?s troubles begin
The Hollywood Reporter
Passion is spoken of and clumsily envisioned in The Aspern Papers, but not a drop of it is felt
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote