Silver Screen | The Age of Innocence

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Dir: Martin Scorcese.  133 mins, USA, 1993, Cert: G Language: English 

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

Based  on Edith Wharton's famous 19th Century novel, a well-respected young lawyer (Day-Lewis) who endangers his career when he falls in love with a married woman, who turns out to be the cousin of the woman he is already engaged to.

“The Age of Innocence is a film to compare with the period dramas of Hollywood’s golden age, such as Wyler’s The Heiress (based on Henry James) or Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons or something by the European masters: Max Ophüls’ The Earrings of Madame De or Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard"   Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian