... The White Countess is so bloodless it all but cries for a transfusion.. This is Merchant-Ivory's kind of showmanship, the unflashy adult variety of movie magic that they made their hallmark.. Sumptuous to look at, tastefully dull, and ultimately rather silly, it whisks us to a far-off land -- the Shanghai expatriate community on the eve of World War II -- and strands us among cooked-up characters and emotions.. So powerful is Fiennes that his performance carries the last act of an overlong f...
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