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Film 2 Easy Virtue Stephan Elliott 96 MINS, PG OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies Michel Hazanavicius 99 MINS
The new film by Stephan Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) is adapted from an early Nol Coward drama, but Elliott has cut most of Coward's repartee and pasted in his own dialogue, including this exchange on a tennis court. "Nice backhand," pipes up one bright young thing. "Was that a backhanded compliment?" quips the other. If only Nol could have written zingers like that, eh?
Easy Virtue stars an uncharismatic Jessica Biel (right) as an American motor-racing ace who gets married to an English aristocrat, Prince Caspian's...