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COUSIN BETTE Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue (1998, Fox, R, $99.99) Director Des McAnuff slices Honore de Balzac's satirical novel into a film at once craftily dense and maddeningly lightweight -- half revenge drama, half burlesque farce, all semi-coherent. Lange's Bette -- provincial cousin of a Parisian baron and seamstress to his courtesan, Shue -- nurses a crush on a starving sculptor and crushes the baron's daughter after she poaches her boy. But the quick stream of twists never quite pool into a plot. B-
Posted Dec 18, 1998
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