The House of Mirth

A tragic tale of love set in a world of opulence and hypocrisy at the start of the previous century. Lily Bart is 29 years old and strikingly beautiful, but her upbringing has left her flawed in a number of ways. She needs a rich husband to secure her precarious position among the elite of Belle Epoque New York, a vastly wealthy but morally bankrupt world. Lily compromises with society’s expectations to achieve her goal and is unmoved by an opportunity to be happy with the man she loves. Her search for a husband ends in scandal, when she is accused of being the mistress of a rich married man. Cast out of her milieu, she begins to lose status. Lily’s life becomes unbearable as she draws ever closer to her inevitable personal tragedy.
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Script: Terence Davies, based on the novel by EdithWharton
Cinematography: Remi Adefarasin
Editing: Michael Parker
Music: Music Director: Αdrian Johnston
Actors: Gillian Anderson (Lily Bart), Dan Aykroyd (Gus Trenor), Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Peniston), Terry Kinney (George Dorset), Anthony LaPaglia (Sim Rosedale), Laura Linney (Bertha Dorset), Eric Stoltz (Lawrence
Production: A Three Rivers Production, με την υποστήριξη των MEDIA Program of the European Union, the National Lottery
Producers: Olivia Stewart
Co-production: Granada Film Limited, The Arts Council of England, FilmFour, The Scottish Arts Council, Showtime
Art Direction: Kate Naylor
Costumes: Monica Howe
Production Design: Don Taylor
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: UK-France-Germany-USA
Production Year: 2000
Duration: 140

Terence Davies

He was born in Liverpool in 1945. He began his career under the auspices of the British Film Institute with a first short already showing autobiographical traits, Children. At the National Film School he made Madonna and Child, continued in his third short, Death and Transfiguration. These three works were brought together in what was to constitute The Terence Davies. Distant Voices, Still Lives, a masterpiece on post-war Britain, was his international revelation, winning among others the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes IFF, the Golden Leopard at the Locarno FF and the Critics’ Awards at both Los Angeles and Toronto. With The Neon Bible, Davies gave his career something of a new direction on adapting a novel by writer John Kennedy Toole and shooting the movie in the USA. His most recent film Of Time and the City, which was premiered in Cannes IFF 2008, reveals amasterly use of archivematerial in constructing an emotional and critical discourse on urban evolution in Liverpool over the last 50 years.

Filmography

1976-1983 The Terence Davies Trilogy:
Children(1976), Madonna and Child(1980), Death and Transfiguration(1983)
1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives
1992 The Long Day Closes
1995 The Neon Bible
2000 The House of Mirth
2008 Of Time and the City