by Hal Erickson
synopsis
In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville riches, he is in for a major disappointment: Tess' new housemates are not D'Urbervilles at all, but a social-climbing family that has bought the name. Tess won three Oscars, including a "Best Cinematography" statuette for the late Geoffrey Unsworth and his successor Ghislain Cloquet. The film also served to catapult Nastassja Kinski to stardom.
characteristics
- English [nationality]
- Peasant
- Girl
- Faith
- Belief
- Relative
- Social Climbing
- Victorian
- Innocence Lost
- In A Minor Key
- A Good Cry
- Class Differences
- Upward-mobility
- Aristocrat
- Aristocracy
