Pros: A look at Victorian England from a very different angle! Cons: Slow, parts of it will be much too boring for most to sit through.
Continuing on my journey of reviewing obscure historical films, I present for your pleasure The Governess, a rather unusual art house feature set in the mid 1850's in London and Scotland.
Pros: Beautiful photography and acting Cons: Overly long and slightly unfocused
Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess is, like Minnie Driver herself, a creation of uncommon beauty. Every frame of this film shimmers with color and exquisite visuals, thanks to Ashley Rowe's incredible cinematography and keen eye for detail....
The Governess promises to be a Gothic romance of the highest order. It contains all the required elements: a desolate location (The Isle of Skye); a handsome, wealthy, misunderstood lord of the manor; an impetuous and beautiful, yet tragically...
Pros: Minnie Driver proves to be an incredible actress. Cons: Slow film. At parts, downright dull! Pretentious.
It was not easy being a woman in England of the 1800s before the era of suffrage. It wasn't easy being Jewish then either. Combine the two, and you can have some real problems finding acceptance in society.
Pros: Minnie Driver, historical basis for story Cons: long movie, somber mood
Minnie makes this a movie worth seeing, but I would not recommend it for kids. The storyline is easy to follow and the acting is very good. Although I certainly didn't rent the movie for its historical value, the story about the invention of the...
Pros: Wilkinson gives a deeply empathetic performance. Visually stunning. Cons: Driver can't draw empathy for her character, making the film fall flat.
THE GOVERNESS: Drama. It is the 1840’s in London, and when Rosina da Silva’s (Minnie Driver) father is murdered, she is ordered by her mother to marry a much older man in order to erase the family’s debts. Refusing to do so, Rosina, a devout Sephardic...
Pros: Minnie Driver - magnificent cinematography - sensitive story Cons: This is a chick's flick - not many men will be as intrigued
In her fictionalized tale of Britain's first female photographer, writer/director Sandra Goldbacher fashions a romantic drama set in Victorian England.
Minnie Driver plays the daughter of a once-wealthy Jewish merchant. When her...
I have always loved watching period films (Take for example, "Sense and Sensibility" and "Age of Innocence") since they bring back the glory of the past with beautiful gowns, wonderfully rich stories and proper etiquette.
Minnie Driver is a Jewess from London in the 1830s, forced by family circumstances to masquerade as Christian and take a governess's position on a remote estate in the north. She helps her employer, a scientist experimenting with early photographic...
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