almost a tedious to watch a it be to read and even be a gorgeously produce failure . until meryl streep walk in and quietly show her other cast member how to act this kind of stuff . vanessa redgrave be shockingly off in her role a the die ann and claire dane be a cipher . perhaps if vanessa and claire have switch role we could have see the vibrancy in the young ann that give her entrée to the rarefied world of the story and we could have imagine that the old ann actually be die . i be hop the addition of michael cunningham to the writing credit would smooth out the jumpy storytelling but ala . it give me a headache .