Tess/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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Academy Award Winner, Ann Tirard, Arielle Dombasle, Ben Reeks, Brigid Erin Bates, Caroline Embling, Carolyn Pickles, Criterion Collection, David Markham, Dicken Ashworth, Drama, Elodie Warnod, Forbes Collins, Fred Bryant, Geraldine Arzul, Gordon Richardson, Graham Weston, Jack Stephens, Jacob Weisbluth, Jacques Mathou, Jean-Jacques Daubin, Jeanne Biras, Jimmy Gardner, John Barrett, John Bett, John Collin, John Gill, John Moore, Josine Comellas, Keith Buckley, Leigh Lawson, Lesley Dunlop, Lina Roxa, Maryline Even, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Nastassja Kinski, Pascale de Boysson, Patsy Rowlands, Patsy Smart, Peter Benson, Peter Firth, Reg Dent, Richard Pearson, Roman Polanski, Rosemary Martin, Stephane Treille, Suzanna Hamilton, Sylvia Coleridge, Tom Chadbon, Tony Church, Veronique AlainThis multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With it's earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers-Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)-Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
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