The house of mirth (GB, 2000) directed by Terence Davies
A most refined drama in the style of my beloved Visconti and Ivory, based on a novel by Edith Wharton. Along with Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (Wharton again) and Iain Softley's The Wings of the Dove, it is a must see for anyone who cares about period dramas, showing the hypocrisies of a wealthy society where women were nothing without a rich man by their side. Gillian Anderson, the popular Scully in the X-files series, is astonishingly good in the leading role. Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto in D Minor (Slow Movement) is a most fitting soundtrack for such a story.
Highly recommended to the ones who don't give a damn for action.
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
