Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Jane Eyre (1997)- Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Samantha Morton, Ciaran Hinds, Deborah Findlay… - Suitably gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's classic tale of a Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess and falls for the brooding lord of the…
- Kitchen (1997)
- Dir. Yim Ho
Feat. Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita - Treading the same grungy Hong Kong streets as the films of Wong Kar–Wai, this adaptation of a novel by Banana Yoshimoto concerns a love affair…
Marius et Jeannette (1997)
- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan - A laidback yet buoyant slice–of–ordinary–life set on the low–rent side of Marseille, where two wounded fortysomethings strike…
Merry War, A (Keep the Aspidistra Flying) (1997)- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter - A literate, aware version of George Orwell's early comic novel set in a stagnating 1930s Britain. Richard E Grant plays Orwell's self–parody of…
Mill On the Floss (1997)- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Emily Watson, Bernard Hill - The incandescent Emily Watson justifies this Masterpiece Theatre version of George Eliot's Victorian novel (considerably simplified), bringing some…
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves - Light adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 20s novel about a serene society lady in late–life crisis, reflecting on her choices some thirty years…
Rebecca (1997)- Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Emilia Fox… - Late–90s British televisation of the classic Daphne Du Maurier gothic romance, with Charles Dance as the widowed aristocrat whose remarriage to…
Traveller (1997)- Dir. Jack N. Green
Feat. Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Margulies… - 'One–last–score' movie in which a young man, desperate to be accepted by a clan of Irish grifters teams up with a veteran con who wants…
Wings of the Dove, The (1997)- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Charlotte Rampling… - Helena Bonham–Carter, back in costume, shines in this adaptation of the Henry James novel, playing a 19th century gentlewoman on the…
A Summer's Tale (1996)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet - Once more exploring the fickleness of love, dir. Rohmer involves holidaying student Melvil Poupard in a love–quadrangle of romantic options. In…
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