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The Age of Innocence
from Sony Pictures
starring Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tracey Ellis, Carolyn Farina

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Movie for 15 and over
  One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever seen in a movie. It is most beautifully portrayed and ends the way you hope all love stories would end.

• Fails to engage
  Tried to care about this elegant saga, but despite all the fetching details and careful crafting, it all feels rather pointless. Michelle Pfeiffer turns in a radiant performance trying to get out from under these overstuffed rooms and overwrought sensibilities, but can't quite manage it.
  The stumbling point, in my view, Daniel Day-Lewis here plainly just doesn't cut it as a leading man. His emasculated, simpering deadpan, dispensing dialogue medicinally as so much cough syrup, completely fails to... more info

• ON MY TOP FIVE LIST OF MY FAVORITE FILMS
  I did my senior research paper on the original Edith Wharton novel, and the film is so faithful to her original language and vision that I was nearly knocked backward by the brilliance of this ravishingly intoxicating film. All of the symbolism of the novel is here, including the colors and flowers associated with May and Ellen respectively. Whenever I read the novel, I always see Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day Lewis as the ill-fated lovers in my mind, and I very much wish that Michelle Pfeiffer had been... more info

• A Breathtaking Departure for Scorsese
  More renowned for his action and crime films, "The Age of Innocence" just happens to my favorite of Scorsese's works. It isn't perfect, but it's very, very good. Based on the eponymous novel by the great American writer, Edith Wharton, the film exposes the unwritten but ironclad social mores, and their attendant hypocrisies, of upper-class New York society in the late nineteenth century. Therefore, this film required the director to make his points in a subtler manner than we are accustomed to seeing from... more info

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