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In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville riches, he is in for a major disappointment: Tess' new housemates are not D'Urbervilles at all, but a social-climbing family that has bought the name. Tess won three Oscars, including a "Best
Oct 1, 1979 Wide
Sep 28, 2004
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Tess is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.
This is a wonderful film.
Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.
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.
Insufferably long, but very good in parts.
Visually, Tess is a masterpiece, capturing in amazing detail the scenery and atmosphere of the England of yore. The film's chief drawback, however, is its lack of vitality.
Though not one of Polanski's best features, this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's challenging novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is intelligent if flawed, but it's nice to look at due to excellent production values, particularly cinematography.
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
Polanski is entitled to one monstrously overlong period piece, and in Tess he acquits himself satisfactorily, though the film isn't nearly the equal of its counterparts
Tess conveys the bleak determinism that makes this young woman's life so anguished.
Gorgeous, sumptuous, and quietly intense masterpiece.
Not a high point in Polanski's career but not without its merits.
The mean and downward day by day of a gorgeous peasant girl. beautifully adapted to the screen by Roman Polanski. A film dedicated to his wife Sharon Tate.
May 27, 2007Super Reviewer
Natassja Kinski delivers a intelligent star-making performance as strong-willed farm girl of exceptional beauty from a poor family who is forcibly seduce by aristocrat. leaving her pregnant and alone, she gives birth to a sickly child who soon dies. She eventually falls in love with another man who marries her and then
March 21, 2010Super Reviewer
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