Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: Maggie Smith, who died last month, won an Oscar for her role in "The Prime of Miss ...

Maggie Smith, who died last month, won an Oscar for her role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," the 1969 adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel. Vanessa Braganza writes for LitHub about Smith's brilliant performance. "This is one of those rare instances in which a film adaptation isn’t measured by how well it adheres to the novel, but the ways in which it illuminates the original work even further," she writes. "Smith performs Jean Brodie as a creature of opposites, and as magnetic as she is complex." Here's more.

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