rebecca's pocket

I was so looking forward to this. This is my favorite Dickens novel, so perhaps I am set in my ways. The characterizations are all wrong. The direction and sound design seem to be trying to lend a sinister urgency to everything, but is mostly annoying. I guess they are approaching this as a mystery. Anyway, I watched one hour of it before classifying it as a collossal misreading. [ 01.24.06 ]