“The Goldfinch” is this year’s entry in what has become, by now, a time-honored genre: the high-toned awards-bait literary adaptation that, for all the skill and care and ambition…
” is this year’s entry in what has become, by now, a time-honored genre: the high-toned awards-bait literary adaptation that, for all the skill and care and ambition that’s been lavished on it, doesn’t quite work. Watching this faithful-in-a-literal-way yet somehow skittery cinematic transcription of’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 art-mystery novel, you can tell that the director, John Crowley , and the screenwriter, Peter Straughan , did everything in their power to get the novel up on screen.
“The Goldfinch” is also about Theo’s life with the Barbours, a wealthy WASP family on Park Avenue who take him in as their own. And it’s about how Theo gets dragged away by his sleazebag father , who brings him to a barren suburban tract home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, where Theo befriends a moonstruck Yugoslavian delinquent named Boris , whose I’ll-try-anything ways end up turning Theo into a drug addict who favors snorting crushed pills.
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