The Governess (1997)
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.
Review:
Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.
Review:
Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis:
A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.
Review:
Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.