Tess
DVD - 2014
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl 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. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Melodrama
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Romance films - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
Criterion Collection
[2014]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Director approved DVD special edition ; widescreen
- Item Description
- Title from container.
Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy "Tess of the d'Urbervilles."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Special features: Once upon a time ... "Tess", a 2006 documentary about the film; Three programs on the making of the film; interview with Polanski from a 1979 episode of 'The South Bank Show;' Forty-five minute documentary shot on location for French television during the making of the film; trailer. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Music, Philippe Sarde ; photography, Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet ; editors, Alastair McIntyre, Tom Priestley.
- ISBN
- 9781604659610