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Film details
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Countries
United Kingdom Germany USA
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Year
2001
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“The spectator is involved emotionally in the events portrayed on screen, and the film’s intelligent restraint can only heighten the savagery of its tragic climax.”
Wendy Everett, Terence Davies, 2004
The period literary adaptation has long been a cinematic staple, but the form is can be prone to superficiality, leaning more heavily on slavish (or not so slavish) period detail and heightened but po-faced pastiche than the nuanced characterisation and performance on which drama depends.
Terence Davies had already demonstrated a heartbreaking facility for clear-eyed looking-back in autobiographical tales of his own childhood. Here, adapting Edith Wharton’s novel, he does full justice to the material demands of period adaptations while also crafting a screenplay and coaxing performances that express the social and emotional costs of the heroine’s milieu.
Gillian Anderson stars as a New York society beauty who finds the forces of gossip and wealth overpower blithe grace and good intentions.
The 1990s saw the release of two other Edith Wharton adaptations: Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993) and John Madden’s Ethan Frome (1993).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Lily Bart
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Gus Trenor
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Mrs Peniston
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George Dorset
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Sim Rosedale
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Bertha Dorset
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Grace Stepney
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Carry Fisher
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Lawrence Selden
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Judy Trenor
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Percy Gryce
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Evie Van Osburgh
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Mrs Haffen
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Jack Stepney
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Gwen Stepney
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Mrs Hatch
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Madame Regina
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Miss Haines
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Mrs Bry
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Lord Hubert Dacy
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Mr Bry
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Ned Silverton
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Jennings the butler
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lawyer
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Mattie Gormer
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Paul Morpeth
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Edith Fisher
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parlour maid
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clerk
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Dorset butler
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landlady
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1st millinery girl
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2nd millinery girl
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3rd millinery girl
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4th millinery girl
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2nd Unit Photography
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Clapper Loader
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