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Tess Blu-Ray

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1979
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Drama
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles, Richard Pearson, David Markham, Pascale de Boysson, Caroline Embling, Suzanna Hamilton, Sylvia Coleridge, Tony Church, Lesley Dunlop, Fred Bryant, Dicken Ashworth, (...)
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Language: English
Release Date: 2014-02-25
Description

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.