The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Country: US/GER
Technical: Technicolor 109m
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant
Synopsis:
A totalitarian state in the future has developed a system of enforced reproduction in a society riven with infertility, by having fertile women trained as 'handmaidens', or surrogate mothers, bearing children on behalf of the elite.
Review:
The budget isn't big enough to make this convincing Sci-Fi, and the ideas aren't profound or novel enough (the state, Gilead, gets its authority from the Old Testament) to engage much on an intellectual level, but it is one of those films that will remain endearingly wacky for its fidelity to its own rules and the colour coded costume design, all reds and blues for fertile and barren respectively.
Country: US/GER
Technical: Technicolor 109m
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant
Synopsis:
A totalitarian state in the future has developed a system of enforced reproduction in a society riven with infertility, by having fertile women trained as 'handmaidens', or surrogate mothers, bearing children on behalf of the elite.
Review:
The budget isn't big enough to make this convincing Sci-Fi, and the ideas aren't profound or novel enough (the state, Gilead, gets its authority from the Old Testament) to engage much on an intellectual level, but it is one of those films that will remain endearingly wacky for its fidelity to its own rules and the colour coded costume design, all reds and blues for fertile and barren respectively.
Country: US/GER
Technical: Technicolor 109m
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant
Synopsis:
A totalitarian state in the future has developed a system of enforced reproduction in a society riven with infertility, by having fertile women trained as 'handmaidens', or surrogate mothers, bearing children on behalf of the elite.
Review:
The budget isn't big enough to make this convincing Sci-Fi, and the ideas aren't profound or novel enough (the state, Gilead, gets its authority from the Old Testament) to engage much on an intellectual level, but it is one of those films that will remain endearingly wacky for its fidelity to its own rules and the colour coded costume design, all reds and blues for fertile and barren respectively.