Mildred pierce james m cain summary6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Directed by Casablanca vet Michael Curtiz, the 1945 version won Joan Crawford an Oscar, and spare me the post-millennial snickers. Cain's 1941 novel about a Depression housewife turned entrepreneur and then victim at her psychotically snooty daughter's hands (and booty) has been filmed before. So maybe I'd better add right up front that, in the title role, some hot-to-trot English broad named Kate Winslet leaves everything she's done up to now looking kind of shallow and/or obvious in hindsight. As claims go, that ain't macaroni-unless, of course, you never saw I'm Not There, Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Safe or Poison, which were too esoteric to make big dents at the multiplex. HBO's five-part Mildred Pierce, premiering March 27, is the best work of director Todd Haynes's career. ![]()
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