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The Governess (1997)

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Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Synopsis:

A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.

Review:

Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.

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Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Synopsis:

A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.

Review:

Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.


Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Synopsis:

A Jewish heiress in the nineteenth century passes herself off as a gentile and takes employment with a Scottish family as governess. Soon an intimacy evolves between herself and the photographically inclined father of the household.

Review:

Sweet and tender story of forbidden love, ably played and decoratively realised in period trappings, with a sensuality perhaps characteristic of a woman director.

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