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A visually ravishing adaptation of Hardy's novel, set at the close of 19th Century during the painful transition from rural to industrial society. A youthful Kinski plays Tess with a gentle awkwardness that fully realises Hardy's intention of showing how easily the innocent perish under the yoke of the male ego. Tess is always on the brink of the happiness she deserves and Polanski teases us with the possibility of a happy ending.
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
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Sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's period drama set in the NY high society of the 1880s. Day Lewis plays the gentleman set to be married to May in the wedding of the year, but increasingly fascinated by the beautiful Countess Olenska. Decor reflects and oppresses characters, posture, gesture, glance and witty ironic narration convey not only individual psychology but the ideals of an entire etiquette-obsessed elite. Tragedy awaits. Awesome; one of the best period adaptations ever made, both
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) (1939)
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Melodrama as high art: some of the critics reckoned it was better than the original book! It's certainly more gothic and the passions are more torrid. Ms Bronte might not have approved, but this is a powerful little number. Heathcliffe and Cathy get on down........
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