Small is beautiful

It’s inconceivable that even 10 years ago, an actress of the calibre of Kate Winslet and a film-maker as world-class as Todd Haynes would be working together in television. But that is exactly what the two cinema luminaries are doing in a five-hour mini-series of James M Cain’s 1941 Mildred Pierce that is now in production. Haynes is returning to the Cain source material rather than the classic 1945 Michael Curtiz film and has cast Evan Rachel Wood as Mildred’s daughter Veda ...