Tess (DVD + Book)
As timely today as the day it was written.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 28, 2004
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Sony Pictures
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:
81%
78%
[I]t's visually lovely....TESS picked up three Oscars...
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.
New York Times
We are driven back to Hardy at the end and Tess is proof, if proof is needed, of the power of that individual imagination which can survive changes of form.
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The Spectator
TESS is literature rendered in consummately classical terms. The movie’s smooth rhythms are subtly offset by its sound design...
A.V. Club
...Lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate....[Kinski is] altogether ravishing...
New York Times
The movie is a visual delight.
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Sojourner
[A] lush, three-hour adaptation...
USA Today
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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Product Info
- UPC: 043396079052
- Shipping Weight: 1.10/lbs (approx)
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