Hatchet Job of the Day

You’ve got to love Nigel Andrews in the FT; in one fell swoop he takes out ONE DAY - the film and the book. Here he is,  not taking any prisoners:

The film is no deeper than the book, a pleasant, purling, shallow social chronicle …  My colleagues take the novel’s Balzacian listing of period items and icons as the stuff of masterly writing. But Balzac attached tales and characters; Nicholls just gives laundry lists, with a few jokes and a love story. In what way is Hathaway unworthy of that? Both she and Sturgess, a puppyish charmer with a real light comedy flair, are better than their material.

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