Vanity Fair (2004 film)
- Reese Witherspoon: Becky Sharp,
- Eileen Atkins: Mathilda Crawley,
- Bob Hoskins: Sir Pitt Crawley,
- James Purefoy: Rawdon Crawley,
- Gabriel Byrne: Marquis of Steyne,
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Beau George Osborne,
- Tony Maudsley: Joseph Sedley,
- Rhys Ifans: William Dobbin,
- Jim Broadbent: Mr Osborne,
- Geraldine McEwan: Lady Southdown,
- Natasha Little: Lady Jane Sheepshanks,
- Romola Garai: Amelia Sedley
Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair (2004) is a film adaptation of the work Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero ( German Vanity Fair ) by William Makepeace Thackeray in 1848, in which a young woman from a humble beginning of the 19th century will ascend in London society at any cost.
Director Mira Nair are not always held at the 23- million -US - dollar production of the novel, but inter alia, changed the circuit a little off. The main role of the governess ambitious Becky Sharp plays Reese Witherspoon.
Action
Becky Sharp is the daughter of a poor, English painter and a penniless French opera singer who died both early. At a young age she longs for a glamorous life, but which is denied her by their origin.
Yet she does not give up and wants the social ladder climb. You will governess in the house of the eccentric Sir Pitt Crawley and wrapped his reckless, gambling -addicted son, Rawdon Crawley officer of dragoons to the finger. This marries well, but against the wishes of his family, so that her dream of a life of wealth dissolves in air, for his rich aunt rejects him and announces its financial support.
When her husband has to go to war against Napoleon, Becky uses her opportunity and begins to enchant the Marquis of Steyne with her charm. This played during her life time and again smaller rolls in the background, for example, he bought the pictures of her father. He is their patron, but finally he asks for more than it is willing to give.
Reviews
Wolfgang Höbel writes online for mirror: The Indian director revels in the English city dirt, in the English countryside and the English monarchy and the world of the early nineteenth century - but unlike, say, Ang Lee did not make it from the distance of their origin poetic power to conjure up in the very leisurely literary adaptation.
Harald Jähner for the Berliner Zeitung: The film has color enough, enough sound, tired decor, lush costumes. It is at once, hardly the lights go out, with eyes and ears in the United Kingdom Thackeray ... Reese Witherspoon with her pointed chin under the ambiguous smile a credible implausible Becky. List and heat radiating at the same moment, she seems to constantly monitor and readjust their effect - an engineer of the seductive power. While the men make yourself comfortable in the created by Becky comfort, they monitored the situation with a stealthy glance - a complex emotional attitude that Reese Witherspoon embodies good.
Hauke Friedrichs in the star: director Mira Nair has created the film adaptation of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray an amusing costume drama, where there is no lack of suspense, humor and depth. Interesting ... are the balls with plenty of velvet and silk and even more an exotic jungle night, the Bollywood brings in the England of the early 19th century.
Awards
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor won the 2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Costume Design. Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Lund were nominated for Best Production Design.
In the Film Festival 2004 Venice Mira Nair was nominated for his direction of "Vanity Fair" for the Golden Lion.