Evening Standard - London, December 14th, 2006
AMERICANS, eh? They come over here and they take all our women's roles. Just five years after she triumphantly snaffled the part of Bridget Jones from a baying horde of British actresses, Renee Zellweger is back playing an even more warmly treasured English icon. In Chris Noonan's gently charming Miss Potter, the Oscar- winning Texan actress makes a case for children's author Beatrix Potter not just as a neglected feminist icon, fighting for independence and authorial integrity in a male-dominated world, but also as a protoenvironmentalist, engaged in pioneering conservation projects in her be...
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