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Today’s movie is a drama with a scene on March 18. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight. TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES John Durbeyfield learns he is of noble descent and his daughter Tess meets Angel Clare at the May Day dance. After a disaster where the family’s horse is killed, Tess agrees to go ‘claim kin’ with the wealthy Mrs. d’Urberville, but instead meets Alec, her son. Alec writes a letter in his mother’s name inviting Tess to manage their poultry farm. Alec immediately sets out to try and seduce Tess. His family name is really Stoke and d’Urberville was assumed by his father. On the way back from a raucous country party Tess gets in a fight with the other servants. Alec arrives and puts her on his horse. Instead of taking her home, Alec carries her to a secluded grove, where he rapes Tess. She returns home, rejecting Alec’s offer to become his mistress. She gives birth to Alec’s child, but it dies after a few months, unbaptized, so Tess buries it herself outside the churchyard. Tess finds work far away as a milkmaid with Mr. and Mrs. Cricket. She meets Angel Clare again as he has come there to study dairy management. Although all the milkmaids, including Izzy, Retty and Marian love him, Angel soon falls in love with Tess and she returns his affection. Angel goes to visit his family, but resists the efforts of his clergyman father and mother to steer him towards Mercy Chant, a schoolteacher, but agree to his marrying Tess as long as she is pure. Angel returns and proposes to Tess, but she refuses him. She finally changes her mind and agrees. Then she bumps into someone from the d’Urberville estate. Tess writes a letter to Angel, making a full confession of her past. She slides it under his door and when Angel makes no mention of it later, Tess thinks he has forgiven her. However, the letter went under the carpet and he never read it. On the day Angel and Tess get married Izzy tries to kill herself. On their wedding night, Alec confesses a brief affair with an older woman. Tess tells him about being raped by Alec, thinking he will understand and forgive her. Instead he is appalled. They soon separate. Angel moves to Brazil. He meets Izzy and asks her to accompany him, but soon changes his mind. Tess returns home, but later goes to work at a farm with Marian and Izzy doing hard physical labor. Tess goes to visit Angel’s family, but when she overhears his brothers and Mercy Chant talking about his unwise marriage Tess does not approach them. On the way back she finds Alec has become a traveling minister. He goes to the farm and asks her to marry him, but she says she is already married. When Tess learns her father is ill, she returns home. On March 18, 1871 [Ep. 4 10:17 to 10:46] her father dies. The family is evicted since he only had a life-tenancy. They travel to Kingsbere for rented rooms, but find they’ve been rented to someone else and they end up staying in the churchyard. Alec tries several times to get Tess to go away with him and she finally yields after Alec tells her Angel is never coming back. Angel finally does returns from Brazil, but is very ill. When he recovers Angel goes to look for Tess. He finally finds her living with Alec as his mistress. Alec apologizes to Tess, but she tells him ‘too late’, and Angel leaves. Tess blames Alec for losing Angel a second time and when Alec tells her he is not really a d’Urberville she stabs him to death. She chases after Angel and they run away to the deserted ancestral estate of the d’Urbervilles. They later camp at Stonehenge, where Tess is arrested for murder. She is later hung. A well-done version that compares favorably to Polanski’s Tess. It has beautiful and innovative cinematography. Commendable for sticking closely to the plot of the book. His date of death is given at Episode 4 at 25:56 on his tombstone. Producer – David Snodin Director - David Blair Screenplay - David Nicholls Runtime – 4 hours Released – September 14, 2008 Starring – Gemma Arterton as Tess Durbeyfield Hans Matheson as Alec dUrberville Eddie Redmayne as Angel Clare Ruth Jones as Joan Durbeyfield Ian Puleston-Davies as John Durbeyfield Jodie Whittaker as Izz Huett Donald Sumpter as Parson Tringham Anna Massey as Mrs dUrberville Christopher Fairbank as Groby Jo Woodcock as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield Joel Rowbottom as Abrham Durbeyfield Steven Robertson as Cuthbert Clare Hugh Skinner as Felix Clare Laura Elphinstone as Car Darch Sara Lloyd Gregory as Nancy Darch Christine Bottomley as Kate Emma Stansfield as Mary Merelina Kendall as Miss Evans Sarah Counsell as Drunken woman Ellie Darcey-Alden as Modesty Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:59:06 +0000

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