Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7
Predictable and dull.
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
Predictable and dull.
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A woman is torn by both romantic and maternal love in this period romantic drama set in the 1830s. Elisabeth (Sophie Marceau), a Swiss governess, is the beautiful daughter of a once-prosperous landowner who has fallen deeply into debt. Charles Godwin (Stephen Dillane) is a prominent British aristocrat whose wife has suffered a crippling accident; doomed to spend the rest of her life in a semi-comatose state, she cannot bear Charles the child he so desperately needs. So Charles strikes an
Sep 14, 1997 Wide
Apr 26, 2005
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (7)
I wish someone would explain to me why all these 19th Century costume dramas need to be so cheerless, so formal, and so godawful boring.
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