Picks and Pans Review: Mrs. Reinhardt

UPDATED 12/07/1981 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/07/1981 at 01:00 AM EST

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British wife Helen Mirren flees her philandering husband and takes up with brash young American Brad Davis in France. Irish novelist Edna O'Brien adapted her own lyrically moody short story, but the result, except for some lush Brittany location shots, is needlessly vague.

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