Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Well made romance drama.:

When a man (Oscar-Winner:Daniel Day Lewis) has fall in love with a beautiful strong woman (Michelle Pfeiffer), while he engaged with a luminous young woman (Winona Ryder in a Oscar Nominated role), who is his formidale fiancee.

Directed by Martin Scorsese (The Last Tempation of Christ) seems to be unusual choice for directing this flawed but unique film. This has a great supporting cast including:Geraldine Chaplin, Alec McCowen, Richard E. Grant, Mary Beth Hurt, Staurt Wilson, Micheal Gough, Miriam... more info

Absolutely stunning!:

Martin Scorsese was an unlikely choice indeed to direct this piece, but what a wonderful job he did! It is a visual masterpiece and very, very true to its time (1870s upper New York).

I still have yet to see the entire movie all in one sitting, but I've seen it in pieces several times. The opera and formal dinner parties and drawing room tensions are all beautifully filmed, as well as scripted. I've yet to find the time to read Edith Wharton's novel but the film seems true enough.

A young man, Newland... more info

Love, Loneliness and the Strictures of Society.:

Imagine living in a world where life is governed by intricate rituals; a world "balanced so precariously that its harmony [can] be shattered by a whisper" (Wharton); a world ruled by self-declared experts on form, propriety and family history - read: scandal -; where everything is labeled and yet, people are not; where in order not to disturb society's smooth surface nothing is ever expressed or even thought of directly, and where communication occurs almost exclusively by way of symbols, which are unknown... more info

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