An Adult Book Club | Mikołaj (Unsplash)
An Adult Book Club | Mikołaj (Unsplash)
Date: January 27, 2023
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Hoke Theatre
Price: $7/each
1979 (PG) United Kingdom
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
She was born into a world where they called it seduction, not rape. What she did would shatter that world forever. She was a poor man’s daughter, an aristocrat’s mistress and a gentleman’s wife. She was Tess, a victim of her own provocative beauty. A memorable adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” the film combines beautiful cinematography and outstanding performances to create an epic ode to perseverance and fate.
“This is a wonderful film.” – Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
“A haunting, richly rewarding recreation of one of the towering masterpieces of English fiction.” – Richard Freedman, GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
“TESS is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.” – VARIETY STAFF
“TESS is thus an almost unprecedented example of a sweeping historical epic that also functions as an intense personal meditation on the capricious vicissitudes of love and death.” – SLANT MAGAZINE
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