Sunday, January 17, 2021
Tess
- Commentary: Under construction.
I will write more, later, but, I just have to say, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I can't, though, explain why, except for, maybe, the ambience, the performances and the story, in that order. I was so swept up in it that I wrote a review of the movie in which, among other things, I took apart the character of Angel Clare. Ah, those were the days. I still love it. It's kind of like taking a long drive as a passenger through an utterly idylic landscape that you know is crawling with the nasty necessities and the even nastier passions underneath the beauty because, well, you've studied the detail of this "beauty" under your microscope in your laboratory.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Nastassja Kinski Tess Durbeyfield Peter Firth Angel Clare Leigh Lawson Alec Stokes-d'Urberville John Collin John Durbeyfield Rosemary Martin Mrs. Durbeyfield Carolyn Pickles Marian Richard Pearson Vicar of Marlott David Markham Reverend Clare Pascale de Boysson Mrs. Clare Suzanna Hamilton Izzy Huett Caroline Embling Retty Tony Church Parson Tringham Sylvia Coleridge Mrs. d'Urberville Fred Bryant Dairyman Crick Tom Chadbon Cuthbert Clare Arielle Dombasle Mercy Chant
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up on this film.
Release Date: 1979
Directed by Roman Polanski.
Labels: Criterion1, popcorn-and-soda1, roman-polanski
