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will do, for Lily has expensive tastes: Already 29 and dependent upon a wealthy aunt, Lily knows that time is running out.
“I have been about too long," she says. “People are getting tired of me."
Director-screenwriter Terence Davies has turned Wharton’s examination of tum-of-the-century New York City society into an eloquent, heartbreaking work. Anderson is magnificent as Lily, giving a beautifully nuanced performance that captures the character’s blend of brains, imprudence, willfulness and generosity.
She is aided by a fine cast, particularly Laura Linney as a malicious rival, Anthony LaPaglia as a Wall Street parvenu who in the end is more honorable than any of Lily’s high society friends and Dan Aykroyd, a lecherous benefactor who offers her money
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