Elizabeth Olsen stars in the heavy-breathing Zola adaptation In Secret.
by J.R. Jones
This haunting adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin (1867) has good performances from Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise). But it's most remarkable as a pairing of two inspired actresses with four decades separating them: 25-year-old Elizabeth Olsen, the bewitching star of Martha Marcy May Marlene, and 64-year-old Jessica Lange, who made her screen debut in King Kong (1976) and for the next decade or so played the sort of smart, sexy blonds that are now Olsen's specialty.…[ Read more ]