David Denby

“My only serious complaint is that Judy Davis, the fiery young Australian actress who starred in My Brilliant Career, is almost too attractive and self-possessed to play a girl as queer and confused as Adela. Davis, freckled, with a rounded upper lip and a thrusting lower one, has some of the taut, demanding quality of the young Julie Christie. She's a good actress, and perhaps a commanding temperament, but she's not convincing as a repressed virgin.”

David Denby
New York, January 7, 1985
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