I don't know any of those [prior] versions, and I wonder how (which means I doubt that) they avoided the snare that Wharton unwittingly set for her adapters, the snare that, for all his gifts, caught Scorsese.
The Age of Innocence
In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.
1993 · 2h 19m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Director and cast
- Martin Scorsese Director
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Ellen Olenska
- Winona Ryder as May Welland
- Alexis Smith as Louisa van der Luyden
- Geraldine Chaplin as Mrs. Welland
- Jonathan Pryce as Rivière
- Linda Faye Farkas as Female Opera Singer
- Michael Rees Davis as Male Opera Singer
- Terry Cook as Male Opera Singer
- Jon Garrison as Male Opera Singer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Manages to be both personal and true to its source, though it never quite comes together.
An extraordinarily sumptuous piece of filmmaking.
Spurning Masterpiece Theatre twittiness, Scorsese cuts to the primal passions of Wharton's tale.
Mr. Scorsese has made a big, intelligent movie that functions as if it were a window on a world he had just discovered, and about which he can't wait to spread the news.
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