Tess (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
As timely today as the day it was written.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 30, 2014
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Nastassja Kinski | |
| Performer: | Peter Firth, John Bett & Leigh Lawson | |
| Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
| Edited by | Alastair McIntyre & Tom Priestley | |
| Screenplay by | Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski & John Brownjohn | |
| Original story by | Thomas Hardy | |
| Composition by | Philippe Sarde | |
| Cinematography by | Ghislain Cloquet & Geoffrey Unsworth | |
| Produced by | Claude Berri | |
| Executive Production by | Pierre Grunstein |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet
Academy Awards 1980 -
Best Costume Design: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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[A] lush, three-hour adaptation...
USA Today
We are driven back to Hardy at the end and Tess is proof, if proof is needed, of the power of that individual imagination which can survive changes of form.
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The Spectator
Rating: 5/5 --
Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.
New York Times
[Polanski's film] is textured and smooth and even, with lateral compositions subtly flowing into each other; the sequences are beautifully structured, and the craftsmanship is hypnotic. But the picture is tame.
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New Yorker
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
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Time Out
Rating: A+ --
(PODCAST) The greatest filmic literary adaptation any filmmaker has produced.
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ColeSmithey.com
een in the context of Roman Polanski's career it becomes something rich and strange, shaded into terror by the naturalistic absurdism that is the basis of Polanski's style.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Based on Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." A beautiful young woman from a poor background meets with abuse from her upper class employer, hypocrisy from a clergyman who courts her and a triangle of betrayal between them. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best Director. Academy Awards: 3.
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