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The Age of Innocence, 1993
English
USA
Profile of The Age of Innocence
The mood of The Age of Innocence is stylized, captivating, and touching. The plot centers around a love triangle, falling in love, and lifestyle. It is a drama, romance, and period movie. Stylistically, The Age of Innocence includes a voice over and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The Age of Innocence is set in New York. It happens in the Victorian era. It is based on a book. The Age of Innocence is known for being critically acclaimed and an Oscar winner.
Summary of The Age of Innocence
Set in 1870s New York, Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence examines the tyranny of tradition and family heritage--and the tragic consequences of breaking society's unspoken rules. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), an upstanding gentleman and partner in a lucrative and conservative law firm, is engaged to the perfect society woman, the pretty and polished May Welland (Winona Ryder). They are hoping to push forward their wedding date when Newland meets Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), May's beautiful, cosmopolitan, and scandal-ridden cousin. Ellen, who has resided in Europe and cultivated a more permissive continental sensibility, believes she's found a kindred spirit in Newland. Slowly the two fall in love, and Ellen entices Newland with the vision of a life not ruled by the rigid guidelines of New York's stuffy upper crust. But May represents all the temptations and benefits of wealth, position, and propriety. Newland must make the painful choice between a passionate life with Ellen and a placid, safe life with May--the life he was born and raised to lead. In adapting the classic novel by Edith Wharton, Scorsese meticulously reconstructs the elegant world of mid-19th-century Manhattan, using an onslaught of materialistic vices--including an endless barrage of sumptuous foods--to capture the elite world even more fastidiously.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 17 September 1993 |
| Runtime: | 139 min |
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as Newland Archer
as Ellen Olenska
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