Moreover, the most dramatic portion of the plot – in what, as constructed by director John Crowley and writer Peter Straughan, amounts to a narrative hairpin turn – doesn’t really kick in until the last 40 minutes or so of this 2 ½-movie, feeling almost as if those sequences parachuted in from another film.Īlthough built largely around Theo as a youth, the film’s casting incorporates lots of shiny baubles along the way. The story yields a series of dreary episodes before said boy, Theo (Oakes Fegley), graduates into his adult version (“Baby Driver’s” Ansel Elgort), who continues to be haunted by that past. Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the movie represents a transparent bid to bring the book’s prestige to the screen, but it’s another case of literary underpinnings being lost in translation.ĭespite the tragic circumstances that set the plot in motion – when a young boy loses his mother in an explosion at a New York museum, before making off with the painting of the title – the coming-of-age tale unfolds at an uninvolving pace. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the 'Add' button.“The Goldfinch” has a painting at its center, but despite a classy palette of ingredients conjures a lifeless, disjointed picture. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this 'soaring masterpiece' examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

He is alienated and in love - and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this 'extraordinary' and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that 'connects with the heart as well as the mind' (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).

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