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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale (Die Geschichte der Dienerin)

1990

Volker Schlöndorff

Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern ...

5.6

786

Sci-Fi. Drama. Romance In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"At the end of the movie we are conscious of large themes and deep thoughts, and of good intentions drifting out of focus (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Hollywood has again turned a challenging book into negligible cinema. Forget the $13 million budget and the reputations involved."	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The film presents a comfortable, traditional-looking, museum-quality suburban universe in which all of life's truly stabilizing elements are gone."	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Beattie Empire	"Comes across as a TV movie and overall, a disappointment - a high calibre cast and concept completely squandered (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Variety	"Though helmer Volker Schlondorff succeeds in painting the bleakness of this extrapolated future, he fails to create a strong and persistent connection with the heroine’s plight."	NEU
United Kingdom	Steve Grant Time Out	"The faults in the film lie in Harold Pinter's uncharacteristically bland script, and often woefully inadequate design and direction"	NEG

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