Friday, July 5, 2013

The House of Mirth (2000)

Director: Terence Davies
Writers:   Edith Wharton, Terence Davies
Cast:       Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz

A woman risks her chance of losing her happiness with the only man she ever loved.

It is an adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel set in New York. It is about the tension among the upper class about social status, jostling by the newly rich and the perils of thinking independently in such a set up. It is an unforgiving environment and the protagonist, played excellently by Gillian Anderson, finds it out for herself that conformity is the only option. The theme is universal and applicable for almost all the societies of the world.

Rating: 3.5/5

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