The White Countess
by James Ivory
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Actor: Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa RedgraveDirector: James Ivory
Brand: Sony
Producer: Andre Morgan
Producer: Andreas Grosch
Producer: Andreas Schmid
Producer: Ben Spencer
Producer: Daqing Wang
Producer: Fu Wenxia
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The White Countess
Movie Review: A beautiful love story in a torn world
Summary: 4 Stars
Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson play an American and a exiled White Russian countess. Fiennes is one of the great actors of our times
after The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition).
Here as a blind man he shows more heart than many sighted persons.Love and a second family take him by surprise along with the Japanese invasion.
I really like this film; it has a quality of beauty many films lack.
Summary of The White Countess
In 1930s shanghai a blind american diplomat develops a fateful relationship with an exiled russian countess which dramatically alters both their lives. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Lynn Redgrace Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Pg13A stellar cast and an intricate script enhance this last film from the elegant producing/directing team of Merchant/Ivory (creators of A Room with a View, Howards End, and more). Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson, Patty Hearst), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat named Jackson (Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient), who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create. Sofia accepts to escape a life of prostitution, but Jackson's world proves both fragile and volatile--as does Shanghai itself, on the verge of an invasion from Japan. The script, by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day), is fundamentally about culture--what it is, how it's formed, how it shapes and is shaped by human desires--but to describe it thus makes the movie sound academic. Instead, it's lush and subtle, fluid in how it weaves together two people deeply wounded by past losses, who gradually come to embrace what the immediate moment has to offer. Fiennes and Richardson are the movie's core, but surrounding them is a stunning supporting cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave (Mrs. Dalloway, Julia), Lynn Redgrave (Shine), Allan Corduner (Topsy-Turvy), and Hiroyuki Sanada (Ringu). --Bret Fetzer
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