Pauline Kael

“…. [Nastassia Kinski as Tess] never grows up; when she's a rich man's fancy woman, she's still a child. It's a problem similar to the one that Sissy Spacek (who is in her thirties) had in Coal Miner's Daughter. Spacek's shy, naughty smiles were enchanting when she was supposed to be a thirteen-year-old, but when she was supposed to be a grown woman she looked like a kid dressed up in her mother's clothes and wig….”

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker, February 2, 1981
(review of Tess)
Taking It All In, pp 135-136
(See also Kael’s review of Marie)