Driving Miss Daisy 的英语影评

Driving Miss Daisy 为戴茜小姐开车 英语影评

　　Adapting plays to the movies is always an iffy prospect. If the story is "opened up" too much, with extra characters and locations, it can lose its intimacy. If the story remains too close to its stagebound roots it can become cinematically dull.

　　But every now and then a stage adaptation comes along that manages to be faithful to the play's best interests and yet open it up just enough to make for a cinematic treat, and such is "Driving Miss Daisy."

　　Led by riveting performances from Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, this Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama is utterly enthralling, though also quite spare and intimate.

　　Director Bruce Beresford, an Australian who seemed right at home in America's South with "Tender Mercies" and "Crimes of the Heart," has returned triumphantly to that area in creating this wonderfully delicate masterpiece, largely through t