The House of Mirth (2000)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/Hawk Anamorphic 140m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Anthony LaPaglia, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
New York 1905-7: a young woman of uncertain fortune throws away her chances of security in pursuit of authenticity, and is let down by her friends.
Review:
Ethereally beautiful, graceful adaptation of Edith Wharton, shot on a small budget in Britain by a filmmaker with a penchant for misery and interior furnishings. It rarely fails to subordinate the latter to the characters, however, unlike Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, and the patient will find performances of considerable subtlety here to make up for the lack of spectacle, with crackling dialogue to match. The heroine is of course lost because she doesn't play the game, but neither does she have the courage of her modernity.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/Hawk Anamorphic 140m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Anthony LaPaglia, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
New York 1905-7: a young woman of uncertain fortune throws away her chances of security in pursuit of authenticity, and is let down by her friends.
Review:
Ethereally beautiful, graceful adaptation of Edith Wharton, shot on a small budget in Britain by a filmmaker with a penchant for misery and interior furnishings. It rarely fails to subordinate the latter to the characters, however, unlike Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, and the patient will find performances of considerable subtlety here to make up for the lack of spectacle, with crackling dialogue to match. The heroine is of course lost because she doesn't play the game, but neither does she have the courage of her modernity.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/Hawk Anamorphic 140m
Director: Terence Davies
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Anthony LaPaglia, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis:
New York 1905-7: a young woman of uncertain fortune throws away her chances of security in pursuit of authenticity, and is let down by her friends.
Review:
Ethereally beautiful, graceful adaptation of Edith Wharton, shot on a small budget in Britain by a filmmaker with a penchant for misery and interior furnishings. It rarely fails to subordinate the latter to the characters, however, unlike Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, and the patient will find performances of considerable subtlety here to make up for the lack of spectacle, with crackling dialogue to match. The heroine is of course lost because she doesn't play the game, but neither does she have the courage of her modernity.