Tess (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Tess (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Tess with a Polish accent
Summary: 3 Stars
Dishonored by her ersatz cousin , Tess has a child who dies. After some time she finds love while milking cows with an "Angel", but their marriage is spoiled by Tess telling the truth about her past.
Bad comes to worse when her father dies and the family loses their tenant
status on the farm.
Comes to marry her rich cousin to keep a roof over her Mom and siblings,
but when Angle returns sick from Brazil and searches out Tess,
the end is not a happy one.
I thought that although the staging, costuming and most of the acting
was well done, the lead was played believably.
Movie Review: POLANSKI film: 1980
Summary: 3 Stars
Even though this film was well made, cinematography, and structure, adapted from the novel, along with fine acting, I still found it to be somewhat dull and slow-moving. Some might appreciate it more than I did.Movie Review: Where is ET when you need him?
Summary: 2 Stars
"Tess" must be a payment Roman Polanski made in service of his libido, rather than his art. The story and action have elements that are ludicrous. I won't enumerate a list, because if you're going to rent or buy it, you'll count them all yourself. There is little else, save the lead acting, costuming, sets, and cinematography that is noteworthy; yet nothing is a saving grace to a fallacious story. Just imagine, if you were a bobby, charged to be out on a horse, in the cold, damp, pre-sunrise, fog-shrouded Stonehenge, leading a squad of men to apprehend a murderess, and you find her asleep with her husband, and the husband beseeches you to wait a bit to let her sleep a little longer. You might want to think he was more a danger to the public than she for that request, let alone acquiesce to it! No one has a thermos of coffee to drink while they wait for her to awaken! "I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid she'll have to come along with us now," should have been the polite Edwardian reply. That gem was at the end, sealing the film's ruin for me, and is a sample of the rationality and believability of this flick, such that, even prior to that, when the final scenes first opened on the misty-gray Stonehenge, the appearance of a flying saucer would have been a big plus for the plot, and more believable than any expectation a squad of police would wait in the damp, cold dawn of morning for their suspect to awaken before taking her into custody, and the UFO would have at least made it all worthwhile.
The A&E version, starring Justine Waddell, was also surrealistic in the end, but not as much so, with the group of constables, this time all on foot, appearing from behind the stones and lining up in a neat line, just waiting, silent, not a word spoken, until Tess, accepting of her fate and comfortable within the madness to which she was driven, or drove herself, gets up from her Angel's embrace to walk to the policemen, saying, "I'm ready."
Just as strange as the request in Polanski's ending, but better.
Movie Review: rotten movie
Summary: 2 Stars
HOW can Polanski justify making this movie! was it all to push kiddie porn?!! for underaged sex!!! I mean geez, everybody who watched this whole movie from beginning to end, deserves KUDOs cuz I couldn't do it, even if it's free!!! STay true to the author and history of the milking cows by DURBEY-FIELD and ALEC. And no justice to the best part in the WHOLE BOOK-- that one spot in the ceiling getting bigger and bigger as he continues to talk to Tess, then soon drips blood. OH! That best!!! The movie pandered too much for what the director and producers wanted to push for their own selfish ends by making this movie, and therefore, their true intent comes straight through, doing no justice to the key elements in the book, the cows eating GARLIC, and her always milking a bit profane with her puckered lips on the cow, and giving people the spooks, definitely off the mark in this movie! period. It needs a major remake by someone who understands the historic value of the classicism of this novel, played by actors who also understand Alec and the priests who followed Tess around at all times, including ANGEL, and her final exit through STONE-HEDGE. If everyone understood the key elements, I wouldn't say it's ROTTEN!