Age of Innocence

Pros: Gorgeous production values, Michelle Pfieffer, and Winona Rider.
Cons: The plot will be incomprehensible to many who have not read the book.

Mention classic author Edith Wharton and filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the same sentence, and most of you will reply, "No way!" Genteel, class-conscious, and graceful upper class society in New York meets a violent, gun toting, Taxi Driver? The mind...

Pros: Near perfect period details visually stunning
Cons: for some slow moving, mannered and dull

One of the most remarkable things about the Age of Innocence is that is directed by Martin Scorsese (who fell in love with the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Edith Wharton). It is a story set in the 1870's among the highest member of New ...

Pros: Ravishing performances, masterful direction, superb cinematography!
Cons: None

Our tale is set in New York City, with the social caste system of the times taking centre stage in tandem with the inner workings of a calculated menage a trois that attempts to go against the flow of the strata that permeates Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred ...

Pros: excellent direction, astonishing attention to detail
Cons: as dully maddening as 19th century New York society itself

Age of Innocence was one of those movies I always meant to see. It seemed well-augered to offer Winona Ryder, whom I quite like despite her knack of playing mediocre same-y characters, Daniel Day-Lewis, whom we must respect...

Pros: Wonderfully Directed
Cons: Weak Character Development

The Age of Innocence is a true Harlequin novel come to life. Based on Edith Wharton's novel of life in nineteenth-century upscale New York, Martin Scorsee, seems to not only bring the pages to life, but adds more drama, passion and intrigue.

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Pros: Intelligent, passionate, heartbreaking, exquisitely beautiful
Cons: Need to be able to read between the lines... Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler fans stay away

Think about it: If you met the love of your life, would you walk away? In The Age of Innocence, Newland Archer and Ellen Olenska do just that.

Martin Scorsese's marvellous film is set in 1870s New York, a world of privilege... and conformity....

Pros: Captures the cultural moment of fin-de-siecle urban America (true to Wharton's novel)
Cons: Those who mind psychological drama should pass on this one

Scorses delivers in this film rendition of the fin-de-siecle Edith Wharton tome. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the role of an upper-class lady fallen from societal approval with grace, carriage, and just the right amounts of pride and vulnerability. Daniel...

Pros: Great performances and direction; a sweepingly emotional story.
Cons: Many will be turned off by the slow pace.

Violently expressed emotions, senseless brutality, the Mean Streets of modern-day New York, and other staples of director Martin Scorsese's films are traded in for muted passions, rigid etiquette, and the Innocence of 1870s New York in his...

Pros: uhm, the women are pretty, mostly
Cons: acting, script, direction, tone--it's all wrong

Scorsese understands nothing about Wharton. He uses her novel, a biting critique of the follies of materialism, a virtual warning against being proud you're rich, to throw endless amounts of fancy looking things at us.

From the opening...