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By Joanne Hilty
Rappahannock News Writer •
Great books rarely make great movies, but thanks to director Iterance Davies’s loving adaptation and Gillian Anderson’s lucid performance as doomed Lily Bart, Edith Wharton’s best novel arrived on the screen with all its tragic impact intact. “The House of Mirth” will show at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington, Virginia, Saturday, June 16 at 8 p.m.
The tragedy of Lily Bart (Anderson), the smart but selfdestructive heroine in the film, is that while Lily has every chance to save herself, she can’t bring herself to make the moral and romantic compromises required.
Saving herself, as it was understood in 1905 when “The House of Mirth” came out, meant marrying. Only a rich husband
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