Tess
Impressionable young Tess is sent by her alcoholic father to visit her rich relatives and apply for a job. There the strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.
18 February 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
17 December 1936, Birmingham, England, UK
12 August 1911, Dundee, Scotland, UK
24 September 1902, Maisons-Lafitte, Yvelines, France
8 February 1952, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
11 May 1930, London, England, UK
27 October 1953, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
10 March 1956, Newcastle, England, UK
27 April 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
7 April 1941, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
10 December 1909, Darjeeling, India
14 August 1918, Chingford, England, UK
1949, Cupar, Scotland, UK
3 April 1913, Wick, Worcestershire, England, UK
1929, France
18 July 1946, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK
10 September 1944, Birmingham, England, UK
5 June 1917, Marylebone, London, England, UK
24 August 1924, Newmarket, Suffolk, England, UK
19 January 1931, Palmers Green, London, England, UK
18 October 1928, Wharfedale, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
March 10, 1928 in Milan, Italy
February 06, 2014
Unexciting.
June 24, 2006
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
April 18, 2014
Roman Polanski is one of those men who, despite his icky treatment of women in real life, manages to create strong and compelling female characters for the screen.
February 19, 2010
Insufferably long, but very good in parts.
March 06, 2014
This is Kinski's show and she flat out steals it.
February 19, 2010
Tess is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.
October 23, 2004
This is a wonderful film.
February 25, 2014
The film, like its source, is filled with pessimistic fatalism, but it spares no pity for the instruments of fate [...] What, if anything, this meant to Polanski remains unknowable.
January 08, 2007
Though not one of Polanski's best features, this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's challenging novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is intelligent if flawed, but it's nice to look at due to excellent production values, particularly cinematography.
January 01, 2000
een in the context of Roman Polanski's career it becomes something rich and strange, shaded into terror by the naturalistic absurdism that is the basis of Polanski's style.
February 19, 2010
Visually, Tess is a masterpiece, capturing in amazing detail the scenery and atmosphere of the England of yore. The film's chief drawback, however, is its lack of vitality.
May 20, 2003
Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.
