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.
The Age of Innocence (Criterion Collection)
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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

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Certified Fresh83%

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...A celebration....Magnificent performances....[Ryder] is a revelation... - Recommended
Premiere
Apr 1, 1994
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. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Aug 4, 2018
Spurning Masterpiece Theatre twittiness, Scorsese cuts to the primal passions of Wharton's tale.
Rolling Stone
Jul 22, 2006
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. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 14, 2018
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. Full Review
The New Republic
Jun 19, 2013
Rating: 4/4 -- one of the greatest and most devastating films about the agonies of doomed love Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Apr 26, 2018
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
Jul 22, 2006

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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