Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Stanley Kauffmann

“Lately, however, Fonda has been deepening and freshening again…. [I]n three different pictures in the last two years [FWD&J, Comes a Horseman, and California Suite], her roles were well-enough written and she showed us superior acting. In the pastry-puff Fun with Dick and Jane, she bubbled. If there’s such a thing as a non-dance performance that dances off the ground with sheer spirit—and there is—she did it here….”

“I can’t quite contend that Fonda has become the first-rate artist I thought and still think is in her. For one point, she has been lax in her choice of scripts….”

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, date?

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