The Age of Innocence 4K 1993

I do not know what motives prompted Scorsese to screen the female historical melodramatic novel, but the resulting film-product undoubtedly has all the characteristics of a qualitatively staged and played film. In general, I all this to the fact that in the hands of a true master, which is Scorsese, well baked not only pies with the stuffing of a sharp crime drama! Well, and the fact of the director's uneven breathing in the direction of New York is generally known. Probably, this is the main reason for his participation in this project.

So, about the movie itself. The production is gorgeous. The era of America (or rather New York) at the end of the 19th century is recreated stunningly: with the help of costumes, scenery, and camerawork techniques, focusing on interior objects, with single-plane rounds of the living rooms of the city's mansions, where the high society events unfold, with occasional deliberate illumination of the main characters. The movie is dragging, and it's very hard to say that it's oversaturated with excitement. But the viewer who knows what he is watching should only immerse himself in that epoch, with all the ambiguous mores of that society, should only become involved in the fates of the heroes - and that's all, the pleasure of watching is guaranteed. The events are accompanied by a female voice-read text. I liked this method - it allows you to more fully penetrate the ideas of the literary source, does not leave any ways to misunderstand the actions of the characters.

By the way, about them. There are three main characters in the movie and they were played by delightful Michelle Pfeiffer, sophisticated Winona Ryder and brilliant Daniel Day-Lewis. They played wonderfully, revealing with their participation the biggest plus of the whole adaptation.

Filled with drama and going against all (almost all) prohibitions of love passion turned out to be a story. Not very dynamic, in some ways very and very sad, at the end of the movie epochal (there was work for makeup artists), but so heartwarming, visually perfect and memorable.
Bravo Scorsese, bravo Day-Lewis and Pfeiffer, who gave us one of the most wonderful costume dramas (at least in my memory).