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Firelight (1997)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7

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

R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Directed By: William Nicholson

Written By: William Nicholson

In Theaters: Sep 14, 1997 Wide

On DVD: Apr 26, 2005

Cast

Sophie Marceau
Elisabeth
Stephen Dillane
Charles Godwin
Kevin Anderson
John Taylor
Joss Ackland
Lord Clare
Lia Williams
Constance
Dominique Belcourt
Louisa

Critic Reviews for Firelight

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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.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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"It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more. You can do what you want, say what you want, be what you want, and when the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten it never happened."

July 31, 2007