The Portrait of a Lady (film)

Portrait of a Lady ( Original title: The Portrait of a Lady ). 's An American- British drama film from 1996 and starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich.

The plot is based on the novel Portrait of a Lady ( Portrait of a Lady ) by Henry James from 1881.

Action

The American Isabel Archer continues in 1872 with her aunt to Europe to enjoy their freedom and to travel. She considers herself first to her relatives in England. Archer gets English Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, an American industrialist, marriage proposals, which she refuses. Between her sick cousin Ralph Touchett and her a friendship develops.

After the death of her uncle, she inherits a substantial sum, which allows independence and travel. In Florence, she met the American, Gilbert Osmond know. She marries him, not without the influence of Madame Merle, a friend of her aunt. The couple moved to Rome. Gilbert proves to be unloving husband; Isabel has the feeling that he had only married her for the money. You silently suffers. His daughter Pansy he forbids to marry her love Ned Rosier. Isabel learns that Madame Merle is the mother of Pansy, and feels patronized.

Isabel travels to England to take care of her dying cousin Ralph Touchett, which angers her husband. She promises Pansy but to come back. There Goodwood tried to persuade her to leave Osmond for him. Isabel returns to Rome. The end remains relatively open.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, the film would belong to a flood of historical novels based on movies such as The Scarlet Letter. He wrote that it would be difficult to accommodate the plot of a 600 -page novel in about 100 minutes of film. For this reason, he praised were the achievements of director Jane Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones admirable ( admirable ). Berardinelli praised the representations of Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich much.

Roger Ebert praised in the Chicago Sun - Times January 17, 1997, the shiny ( magnificent ) Presentation by Barbara Hershey as well as the play of Martin Donovan.

Film-dienst1/1997: Dignified adaptation of a novel by Henry James, it does not quite manage to explain the motives of its protagonists, but the repeated refuge in artificial stylization.

Awards

Barbara Hershey and costume designer Janet Patterson was nominated in 1997 for the film award Oscar. Barbara Hershey was also nominated in 1997 for a Golden Globe Award.

Barbara Hershey and Martin Donovan won the 1997 National Society of Film Critics Award. Both were nominated in 1997 for the Chlotrudis Award.

Barbara Hershey and Janet Patterson won the 1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. Janet Patterson and Laura Jones were nominated for the 1997 Golden Satellite Award.

1996 in film Screenplay Steve Golin Film score Wojciech Kilar Stuart Dryburgh Mary-Louise Parker Chicago Sun-Times List of film awards
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