He wrote the screenplay, too, with Jay Cocks, based on the novel by Edith Wharton. Marty's doing some really interesting things with the camera, and his and Thelma's editing is quite layered and complicated. almost as though at times the film is slipping around through your mind.
It's a tragedy, basically. Engaged New Yorker Daniel Day Lewis meets separated cousin Michelle Pfeiffer and falls in love with her, but they can't do anything about it without bringing their elite families into disrepute. The betrothed, Winona Ryder, eventually finds out but by then she's pregnant and the wedding goes ahead. Goes on a bit too long, really.
Engaging support from Alec McCown, Miriam Margolyes, Sian Phillips, Geraldine Chaplin, Richard E Grant, Mary Beth Hurt, Stuart Wilson, Michael Gough, Norman Lloyd, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Sean Leonard and (in a tiny part) June Squibb.
Artfully photographed by Michael Ballhaus with Florian as first assistant.. Production design Dante Ferretti. Music Elmer Bernstein. Alisa Lepselter is the first assistant editor. Skip Livesay is the supervising sound editor, Tom Fleischman the re-recording mixer.
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