Norwegian Wood -- Film Review

10:06 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Deborah Young, AP

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VENICE -- The fact that "Norwegian Wood" is based on Haruki Murakami's 1987 international best-seller should encourage many viewers to give this long, elegantly shot, sporadically involving Japanese film a try. But not all will have the patience to let themselves be caught up in more than two hours of teenage love and sex, however gorgeous the cast.