It's become a frock-fest vehicle for Romola Garai, but she isn't up to the job and isn't convincing as the stunningly beautiful Gwendolen.

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As with all his adaptations, he subverts the text to concentrate on the heroine Gwendolen, who he turns into a vapid but stroppy travesty of a modern woman, instead of allowing the original plot to speak for itself.

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