Quote:
"Despite its achingly straight heritage, in Rozema's hands Mansfield Park is a queer film indeed. But it is not the quasi-lesbian encounters between Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor) and Mary Crawford (Embeth Davidtz) that mark it so—despite the fact that this is what was latched onto by the critics. [...] Instead, it is the film's creation of a polyvalency of desire, a general air of erotic objectification available to both the characters and spectators and unhinged from the conventional love-story trajectory."
-- Michele Aaron

Source:
Aaron, Michele. "The New Queer Spectator." In New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader, edited by Michele Aaron. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. (p. 193)