The Age of Innocence (1993)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 138m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Synopsis:
New York in the 1870s: a lawyer about to marry a society match falls in love with her separated, unconventional cousin but chooses the simpler, traditional path.
Review:
A film which ravishes the eye and ear, and flatters the intellect, but encases its characters so much in the trappings of the period - doubtless to suggest their paralysis and privileged isolation - that it tends to have the opposite effect of fetishizing objects and rendering actors prisoners of the carefully composed shot. As Hollywood's contribution to the 'heritage' film it set the seal on that genre as 'the' bankable entertainment package of the Nineties.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 138m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Synopsis:
New York in the 1870s: a lawyer about to marry a society match falls in love with her separated, unconventional cousin but chooses the simpler, traditional path.
Review:
A film which ravishes the eye and ear, and flatters the intellect, but encases its characters so much in the trappings of the period - doubtless to suggest their paralysis and privileged isolation - that it tends to have the opposite effect of fetishizing objects and rendering actors prisoners of the carefully composed shot. As Hollywood's contribution to the 'heritage' film it set the seal on that genre as 'the' bankable entertainment package of the Nineties.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 138m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Synopsis:
New York in the 1870s: a lawyer about to marry a society match falls in love with her separated, unconventional cousin but chooses the simpler, traditional path.
Review:
A film which ravishes the eye and ear, and flatters the intellect, but encases its characters so much in the trappings of the period - doubtless to suggest their paralysis and privileged isolation - that it tends to have the opposite effect of fetishizing objects and rendering actors prisoners of the carefully composed shot. As Hollywood's contribution to the 'heritage' film it set the seal on that genre as 'the' bankable entertainment package of the Nineties.