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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767821537
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 076782153X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 34137
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1998
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Amazon.com:
Minnie Driver stars as an impoverished Jewish woman, Mary, living in an emphatically anti-Semitic England in the mid-19th century. Following the murder of her beloved father--who leaves his survivors strapped with his debts--she camouflages her identity as a Protestant of Italian descent and takes a job as governess to an unorthodox Scottish family. In this film by Sandra Goldbacher, sundry conventions from Victorian novels mix with a contemporary, feminist take on Mary's subsequent adventures. Mary asserts, with some effort, her authority over her willful charge (Florence Hoath); she dodges the insults of a vaguely ghoulish matriarch (Harriet Walter); and she becomes an aide, confidante, and lover to the man of the house (Tom Wilkinson), a naturalist dabbling with early experiments in photography. Goldbacher fails to make it all feel as fully realized as it could be (much of the detail and soul of Mary's life in London is too telescoped and impressionistic to sink in). But the film's middle section, in which the heroine's complicity with Wilkinson's married character engages her keen intelligence as well as her untapped sensuality, is deeply felt. It's nice to see Driver prove she can carry a film, though the dreamy, exotic photography by Ashley Rowe certainly pulls a viewer along as well. --Tom Keogh
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There were several favorable reviews from fellow Amazonians regarding THE GOVERNESS, and it was recommended by the dear hearts at Amazon, so I took a shot in the dark on this one.
The lushness of the Isle of Skye is absolutely breathtaking (great direction w/the sweeping camera shots), while you can feel the grittiness and urban setting of Victorian London (the "ladies of the night" egging Rosina on is a particularly standout moment). Minnie Driver's portrayal of Rosina da Silva is ... Read More
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This movie is made predominantly by women, and it really shows in the way the issues of a young woman's emerging sensuality and sexual curiousity are dealt with. The scripts are realistic and the photography is stunning. In addition, the film vividly contrasts, using language, clothes and scenery, the austere and cold Protestant Christianity of those times against the richness and warmth of the equivalent Jewish culture.
One of the other themes in the movie is the way women's contributions ... Read More
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Period piece about the early days of photography and a relationship between an older man and a younger woman. Minnie Driver plays a Jewess in London who finds work in Scotland after her father is murdered. She gets in with her employer and is desired by his son. Minnie Driver is a second generation Jenny Agutter with those sweeping cheeks. She was born in London on January 31, 1970. Her real name is Amelia. Her sister called her Minnie because she could not pronounce it. Driver sang in jazz clubs before ... Read More
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There is much that can be said about this film. It is one of those films that can stimulate much discussion since everyone probably comes away from the film with a vast range of opinions and impressions about what they have seen. The film is told from a Jewish perspective which makes it unique for a film about the English and Scottish in the early 19th century at the frontier days of photography.
Minnie Driver is never more beautiful or in full control of her acting abilities as she is in this ... Read More
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I have to say that this film is one of my favorites. Starring Minnie Driver as a enchanting Jewish girl who, through unforeseeable circumstances, has to leave the only home she's ever known in London, her grieving mother, best friend/sister, and the man she's has every intention on marrying, to become a Governess (hence the title)for an affluent family in Scotland to help support her family.
While there, she has to manage a bratty yet lonely young girl, find a way to tolerate a snobby, puckered ... Read More
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