Image of movie THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Image of movie THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Image of movie THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Image of movie THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH

Haus Bellomont
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States 2000
135 min
OV w/ GER subtitles
V'21

Lily Bart has never looked more radiant than as an allegory of summer in a tableau vivant after a painting by Watteau. In her simple dress, she displays her real self, this is what her cousin Grace would like to see at least. But is it possible to be one’s real self at all in a society entirely based on reputation and protocol?
In her 1905 novel The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton charted the fall of a woman who starts out as a cherished member of New York’s upper class. Lily Bart provokes some skepticism, though. She is very beautiful, but maybe she is a little bit too outspoken about the implications of “the business”. For a woman like herself, dependent on her aunt and living off a (too) modest fortune, such a business can quickly become difficult to master. And as matters of the heart and of livelihood collide, Lily Bart becomes compromised in more ways than one.
For Terence Davies. this meticulously faithful adaptation of The House of Mirth was a peak career moment and took Gillian Anderson, at that time most famous for THE X FILES, to a completely different level in a painfully true and agonizingly beautiful period piece. (Bert Rebhandl)

In the presence of Terence Davies.

Credits
  • Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart
  • Eric Stoltz - Lawrence Seiden
  • Dan Aykroyd - Gus Trenor
  • Eleanor Bron - Aunt Peniston
  • Anthony LaPaglia - Simon Rosedale
  • Laura Linney - Bertha Dorset
  • Terry Kinney - George Dorset
  • Terence Davies (nach dem Roman von Edith Wharton)
  • Remi Adefarasin
  • Michael Parker
  • Don Taylor
  • Monica Howe
Three Rivers Production, Granada Film Productions, Film Four, Diaphana Films, Progress Film Distribution, Kinowelt Medien
Film 4/ITV @ Park Circus
35 mm
Farbe
Sat 23 Oct
18:30
Filmmuseum
OV w/ GER subtitles
iCal
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