Tess (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 30, 2014
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Nastassja Kinski | |
| Performer: | Peter Firth, John Bett & Leigh Lawson | |
| Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
| Edited by | Alastair McIntyre & Tom Priestley | |
| Screenplay by | Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski & John Brownjohn | |
| Original story by | Thomas Hardy | |
| Composition by | Philippe Sarde | |
| Cinematography by | Ghislain Cloquet & Geoffrey Unsworth | |
| Produced by | Claude Berri | |
| Executive Production by | Pierre Grunstein |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Costume Design: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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Tess is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.
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Variety
Rating: A+ --
(PODCAST) The greatest filmic literary adaptation any filmmaker has produced.
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ColeSmithey.com
[A] lush, three-hour adaptation...
USA Today
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
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Time Out
...Lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate....[Kinski is] altogether ravishing...
New York Times
Rating: 4/4 --
This is a wonderful film.
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Chicago Sun-Times
TESS is literature rendered in consummately classical terms. The movie’s smooth rhythms are subtly offset by its sound design...
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Based on Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." A beautiful young woman from a poor background meets with abuse from her upper class employer, hypocrisy from a clergyman who courts her and a triangle of betrayal between them. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best Director. Academy Awards: 3.
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