The Shipping News, like The Remains Of The Day, is the sort of film that divides an audience into readers or watchers. Based on Annie Proulx's best-selling novel, The Shipping News is a meandering, visually lovely film that mostly proves there are some things on the page that cannot work on the screen. The movie seems to have translated thought and feeling into event; this is a compressed and linear version of lyrical goings-on.
It didn't work for this viewer.
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