- director:
- Roman Polanski
- cast:
- Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Thomas Hardy’s novel is exquisitely brought to the screen in this richly textured masterpiece. A love story about a young English girl whose family discovers it has a blue-blooded lineage, it traces her tragic seduction, the birth and death of an illegitimate child, and her fateful outcome in a hypocritical society. Winner of three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. “Extraordinarily well-crafted.” (New York Magazine) “Lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate.” (Janet Maslin, NY Times)
website: criterion.com/films/28594-tess