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Review: Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson shine, but latest 'Aspern Papers' falters

"The Aspern Papers" have been something of a family business for the Redgrave acting clan for more than half a century, and the new film version continues that tradition with a range of results.

It all started in 1959, when Vanessa's father, Michael, did a stage adaptation of the 1888 Henry James novella about a deeply obsessive American's quest for never-published letters of a long dead Romantic poet, letters

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