The House of Mirth [Import]
When a woman has the beauty men admire and women envy...it is wise to tread carefully.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 6, 2016
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd & Eric Stoltz | |
Performer: | Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern, Jodhi May, Penny Downie, Pearce Quigley, Helen Coker & Mary Macloed | |
Directed by | Terence Davies | |
Edited by | Michael Parker | |
Screenwriting by | Terence Davies | |
Composition by | Adrian Johnston | |
Story by | Edith Wharton | |
Produced by | Olivia Stewart | |
Director of Photography: | Remi Andefarasin | |
Executive Production by | Bob Last |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A very worthwhile adaptation of Wharton's novel.
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Common Sense Media
Ranked #2 in Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000 -- Gorgeous, bracing....[Anderson is] magnificent...
Entertainment Weekly
...Davies does a splendid job as a writer and director...
Los Angeles Times
...Gillian Anderson turns in a compelling performance for this excellent Edith Wharton adaptation...
Total Film
This is very much Anderson's film.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: B+ --
Meticulously made with graceful style, Terence Davies' adaptation of Wharton is superior to Scorsese's Age of Innocence, the author's other famous novel.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Everything about the film feels ornate but funereal, like an airless luxury suite on the last night of an affair.
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Product Description:
Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES) triumphs with his sumptuous, painterly adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, which is set amid the vicious moneyed classes of 1905 New York and features a heartrending, perfectly nuanced performance by Gillian Anderson as doomed heroine Lily Bart. Lily, though strikingly beautiful and socially prominent, remains unmarried at the late age of 29. She jokes that marriage is a woman's vocation, but she is conflicted between her desire to marry a wealthy man and her love for handsome, elegant Lawrence Selden (Eric Stoltz), who, unforgivably, must work for a living. Lily's options begin to narrow, however, when her backstabbing friend, Bertha Dorset (Laura Linney), informs potential suitors of her gambling debts. In a world where the slightest hint of impropriety equals social death, Lily's self-professed genius in doing the wrong thing at the right time leads to trouble. A potential solution to Lily's downward social spiral arrives when a useful secret falls into her lap. In order to save herself, Lily must struggle with her naïveté, pride, and ineptitude at playing the elite's deadly, coded game. Davies's beautifully composed, richly textured images and Anderson's skillful evocation of quiet desperation make for a visually stunning, emotionally resonant tale.
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