Lovely review. 
Nice to see JN getting credit for the way he handled this role. I think it's underappreciated by the world at large (not by us, of course 
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Just one thing: am I being too much of a romantic in thinking that "His dedicated marriage to Gertrud may strike some as unrealistic in its sappiness" is overly cynical? 
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
-- C.S. Lewis 
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