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Tess (1979) [Special Edition]
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 02:45:12 | 7,68 Gb + 5,68 Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; #2 Spanish/Catalan AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 02:45:12 | 7,68 Gb + 5,68 Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; #2 Spanish/Catalan AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Roman Polanski
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.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles was the most successful of Thomas Hardy's social dramas. Perhaps because they're so uniformly depressing, they've seldom been tackled as subject matter for popular cinema. But leave it to Roman Polanski to buck the trend of the crowd, and buck it he did in this loving recreation of Victorian England, set in Hardy's fictional Wessex.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/2b/94/0022942b_medium.jpeg)
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Tess Durbeyfield (Nastassja Kinski, in her first major starring role) is sent to live with the d'Urbervilles after her impoverished family disastrously learns that they are of that once-noble house. However, as it turns out the present d'Urbervilles are really the Stokes family and have only bought the title. Tess is put to work on the poultry farm, since the holders of the name are unimpressed with her heritage. But her beauty draws the ne'er-do-well son of the family, Alec (Leigh Lawson), who "forcibly seduces" Tess. Abandoned to bear a child, who soon dies, Tess eventually finds love and marriage with a parson's son, Angel Clare (Peter Firth). But she cannot resist the temptation to confess her sordid past, and matters rapidly take a turn for the tragic.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/2c/94/0022942c_medium.jpeg)
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The epic length of the film is well-suited to Hardy's narrative. The development of the character and the story requires a languid pacing, especially in the critical first hour that sets up the situation for Tess and makes clear the double standards and prejudices that will eventually come to bear upon her. The picture is beautifully shot in principal by Geoffrey Unsworth (who died during filming), with warmth and gorgeous imagery that contrasts with the often-muck-covered and back-breaking labor that the spurned Tess is forced into. The red dress that Tess finally dons ina symbolic gesture comes as a bit of a visual shock after the somewhat color-free drama that has gone before. Philippe Sarde's score is suitably heart-breaking for the emotionally-charged story.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/2d/94/0022942d_medium.jpeg)
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The then-seventeen Kinski is at her most waifish here, seemingly all eyes and lips. Even though I don't personally find her attractive, she has an undeniable presence before the camera that makes the fascination of both Alec and Angel quite understandable. Firth's Angel Clare has a nebbishy sensitivity that conflicts with his emboldened pride; even though he confesses an earlier dalliance, he is shocked and horrified that the innocent mental construct of Tess might have had such a skeleton in her own closet. Alec d'Urberville as portrayed here is a bit more sympathetic than he comes off in the novel, not only willing to use Tess but in some respects deeply caring for her. This helps shortcut for film what might not have played as well had it been as written as in Hardy's novel.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/2e/94/0022942e_medium.jpeg)
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Hardy certainly had an almost cinematic eye for setpieces, placing his memorable finale at nothing less than Stonehenge, reflecting a primitivist urge and desire to cast off the Victorian way of life and return to more reasonable pagan ways. The film, which incidentally revived Polanski's career after the undeservedly disastrous reception of The Tenant, makes for a strong argument against moral superiority; its modern sensibility plays well today though we would be well-advised to avoid adopting a similarly superior tone to the Victorians.
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Roman Polanski's "Tess" is a love song with a tragic ending – the best kind of love song of all, just so long as it's not about ourselves. He tells the story of a beautiful young girl, innocent but not without intelligence, and the way she is gradually destroyed by the exercise of the male ego. The story is all the more touching because it is not an unrelenting descent into gloom, as it might have been in other hands, but a life lived in occasional sight of love and happiness. Tess is forever just on the brink of getting the peace she deserves.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/33/94/00229433_medium.jpeg)
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The movie is based on a novel by Thomas Hardy, but Polanski never permits his film to become a Classics Illustrated; this isn't a devout rendering of a literary masterpiece, but a film that lives and breathes and has a quick sympathy for its heroine. Nastassja Kinski is just right for the title role. She has the youth, the freshness, and the naivete of a Tess, and none of the practiced mannerisms of an actress engaged to "interpret" the role. That's good because Tess is a character who should stick out like a sore thumb in many scenes, and Kinski's occasional shy awkwardness is just right for the story of a girl who attempts to move up in social class on sheer bravado.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/34/94/00229434_medium.jpeg)
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The story involves a young girl who will be the victim, the prey, and sometimes the lover of many men, without ever quite understanding what it is that those men want of her. The first man in her life is her father, a drunken farmer named John Durbeyfield, who discovers from the local parson that he is related to the noble local family of d'Urbervilles. The farmer and his wife immediately send their beautiful daughter, Tess, off to confront the d'Urbervilles and perhaps win a position in their household.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/35/94/00229435_medium.jpeg)
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Tess is almost immediately seduced by a rakish cousin. She becomes pregnant, and her child dies soon after it is born. She never tells the cousin. But later, after she falls in love with the son of a local minister and marries him, she confesses her past. This is too much for her new husband to bear; he "married down" because he was attracted to Tess's humble origins. But he is not prepared to accept the reality of her past. He leaves on a bizarre mission to South America. Tess, meanwhile, descends to rough manual labor for a few pennies an hour. She is eventually reunited with her cousin (who is not a complete bastard, and complains that he should have been informed of her pregnancy). She becomes his lover. Then the wayward husband returns, and the physical and psychic contest for Tess ends in tragedy.![Tess (1979) [Special Edition] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/36/94/00229436_medium.jpeg)
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As a plot, these events would be right at home in any soap opera. But what happens in Polanski's "Tess" is less important than how Tess feels about it, how we feel about it, and how successfully Polanski is able to locate those events in a specific place and time. His movie is set in England, but was actually photographed in France. It is a beautifully visualized period piece that surrounds Tess with the attitudes of her time – attitudes that explain how restricted her behavior must be, and how society views her genuine human emotions as inappropriate. This is a wonderful film; the kind of exploration of doomed young sexuality that, like "Elvira Madigan," makes us agree that the lovers should never grow old.Rober Ebert's Review
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Special Features:
DISC ONE:
- The Movie
- Filmographies
DISC TWO:
- "Making of Tess" (37:50) (in french with spanish subtitles)
- "Tess: From Novel to Screen" - featurette (28:40) (in english with spanish subtitles)
- "Filming Tess" - featurette (26:10) (in english with spanish subtitles)
- "Tess: The Experience" - featurette (19:37) (in english with spanish subtitles)
- Polanski at the Prades Film Festival (3:07) (in french with spanish subtitles)
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