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In 19th-century Venice, Italy, ambitious editor Morton Vint tries to get his hands on poet Jeffrey Aspern’s romantic letters to Juliana Bordereau -- his beautiful muse and lover.

Under his watchful care, characters in extreme situations—the isolated, suicidal Woolf, the doomed polar explorers of “The Andrée Expedition,” Aspern’s crazed and aged lover, Juliana Bordereau—become domesticated and relatable, and, getting to know them, we feel a little less extreme ourselves.

More time has passed, and now she is playing the forbidding grande dame Juliana Bordereau in a movie version of “The Aspern Papers” that opens Friday in the United States, this time with her daughter Joely Richardson cast in the younger woman’s role.

“My father was in it with two wonderful actresses, which I saw a number of times. Then I was in it much later as Miss Tina, and suddenly I get the chance to be this ferocious Bordereau, the old lady, which is kind of the full stretch of the bow, if you see what I mean.”

“Everyone can be managed by my aunt,” Bordereau’s niece says in the book, an observation that also feels true of Redgrave.