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Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is moved from late-Victorian London to 1930s Amalfi and is now simply titled A Good Woman - behind which lies a witty and surprising comedy. Mrs Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a 40-something blackmailing adventuress, Windermere (Mark Umbers) now a Wall Street banker and his young wife Meg (Scarlett Johansson) a slacker. Most of the other characters retain their nationality. In A Good Woman, a lot of things seem a bit pared down and that's what makes it more fun than di many other contemporary Wilde adaptations! The costumes are beautiful, the actors great and the musical numbers from the 30s too! Especially interesting: the shift in the title. It is no longer the prop, the fan, that is in the foreground, but a moral ambiguity: Is the "good" woman now the experienced Mrs. Erlynne or the pure Meg Windermere? And what constitutes goodness anyway? When is a person good?