Tess of the D'Urbervilles [VHS]
by Ian Sharp
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Actor: Jason Flemyng, John McEnery, Justine Waddell, Lesley Dunlop, Oliver MilburnDirector: Ian Sharp
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown), Analog; English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 180 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A & E Home Video
Studio: A & E Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Tess of the D'Urbervilles [VHS]
Movie Review: Wonderful story but not a happy ending
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is magnificant, the actors are slendid and the beautiful English countryside is filmed all too well. The story is a sad one that gives hints of a probable happy ending. Justine Waddell is a beautiful actress and Oliver Millburn is so innocently handsome. The emotions in this movie are deep and heartfelt. You feel the pain and struggle that Tess goes through with this magnificant cast. I would recommed this to people who aren't into the "happily ever after" endings and are more inclined to accept a realistic ending. Yes it's heartbreaking and the things Tess does can and are misunderstood but this story takes place in the Victorian era therefore her actions are proper for that time. Absolutely wonderful cast and story.
Summary of Tess of the D'Urbervilles [VHS]
One of the most memorable heroines in literature comes to life in this stunning adaptation of Thomas Hardy's most passionate work. Starring Justine Waddell (Anna Kareina).This handsome made-for-television British-American coproduction uses the longer format of the two-part film to explore the characters of Thomas Hardy's novel with an easy pace. After her mother sends her to distant, moneyed relatives, Tess, played by the striking Justine Waddell, grows from naive but willful young British beauty to determined mother to sad martyr. At the hands of "cousin" Alec (the darkly charming Jason Flemyng), a womanizing, self-centered dandy, Tess begins her lessons on the social double standard, made all the more difficult given her own demanding personal code. A blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful gentleman farmer appropriately named Angel (Oliver Milburn) seems to offer Tess her salvation, but her past hovers over her like a curse and even now threatens her happiness. Director Ian Sharp's handsome presentation makes the most of the picaresque British countryside, an often beautiful, sometimes chilly, and at times inhospitable and unfriendly world. If this interpretation is not as gripping as Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess, it offers a richer, more complex set of characters, and Sharp's earthy palette and subdued cinematic approach creates a vivid world far from the quaint, colorful visions of most theatrical presentations of historical England. --Sean Axmaker
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