The Age of Innocence (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.
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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 13, 2018
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer & Winona Ryder | |
Performer: | Richard E. Grant, Geraldine Chaplin, Stuart Wilson, Miriam Margolyes & Robert Sean Leonard | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Edited by | Thelma Schoonmaker | |
Screenplay by | Martin Scorsese & Jay Cocks | |
Original story by | Edith Wharton | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Produced by | Barbara De Fina | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Ballhaus |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A celebration....Magnificent performances....[Ryder] is a revelation... - Recommended
Premiere
Rating: 4/4 --
Following Wharton's example, Scorsese accepts The Age of Innocence's flamboyantly wealthy and corrupt characters as they are without indulging in fashionably retrospective editorializing.
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Slant Magazine
Spurning Masterpiece Theatre twittiness, Scorsese cuts to the primal passions of Wharton's tale.
Rolling Stone
Scorsese has altered the emotional balance of the story by casting his female leads so perversely-which increases the scope and intensity of the pathos.
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The New York Review of Books
I don't know any of those [prior] versions, and I wonder how (which means I doubt that) they avoided the snare that Wharton unwittingly set for her adapters, the snare that, for all his gifts, caught Scorsese.
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The New Republic
Rating: 4/4 --
one of the greatest and most devastating films about the agonies of doomed love
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 4/5 --
Mr. Scorsese has made a big, intelligent movie that functions as if it were a window on a world he had just discovered, and about which he can't wait to spread the news.
New York Times
Product Description:
Set in 1870s New York, Martin Scorsese's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE examines the tyranny of tradition and family heritage--and the tragic consequences of breaking society's unspoken rules. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), an upstanding gentleman and partner in a lucrative and conservative law firm, is engaged to the perfect society woman, the pretty and polished May Welland (Winona Ryder). They are hoping to push forward their wedding date when Newland meets Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), May's beautiful, cosmopolitan, and scandal-ridden cousin. Ellen, who has resided in Europe and cultivated a more permissive continental sensibility, believes she's found a kindred spirit in Newland. Slowly the two fall in love, and Ellen entices Newland with the vision of a life not ruled by the rigid guidelines of New York's stuffy upper crust. But May represents all the temptations and benefits of wealth, position, and propriety. Newland must make the painful choice between a passionate life with Ellen and a placid, safe life with May--the life he was born and raised to lead. In adapting the classic novel by Edith Wharton, Scorsese meticulously reconstructs the elegant world of mid-19th-century Manhattan, using an onslaught of materialistic vices--including an endless barrage of sumptuous foods--to capture the elite world even more fastidiously.
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