1993 Directed by Martin Scorsese
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Daniel Day-Lewis Michelle Pfeiffer Winona Ryder Alexis Smith Geraldine Chaplin Jonathan Pryce Linda Faye Farkas Michael Rees Davis Terry Cook Jon Garrison Richard E. Grant Alec McCowen Mary Beth Hurt Stuart Wilson Howard Erskine John McLoughlin Christopher Nilsson Miriam Margolyes Siân Phillips Carolyn Farina Michael Gough Joanne Woodward Robert Sean Leonard June Squibb Thomas Gibson Tracey Ellis Norman Lloyd Martin Scorsese
A Época da Inocência, Zeit der Unschuld, La edad de la inocencia, Le Temps de l'innocence, L'età dell'innocenza, 순수의 시대
Rewatch confirms what I've suspected for awhile: this is Martin Scorsese's very best movie . . . poor Newland Archer, always thinking he's the smartest person in the room when in fact he's the dumbest . . . and what rooms, those sweeping tracking shots, rooms cluttered with objects, the conspicuous wealth of the 1870s, generated on the backs of the wholly absent poor . . . a world of unimaginable riches and power, so seductive, its occupants entirely unaware of its exceptionality: a simple matter of fact that their universe is the way it is because they are destined to lead it, their system of unexpressed rules governing their every motion . . . Archer thinks he understands it,…
quite obviously scorsese's best movie, and i can't help but wonder with a twinge of regret what my life might have been like if i'd watched this hundreds of times instead of goodfellas & casino...
98
Stages of entrapment - Newland Archer only feels "free" when he recognizes the sweltering societal prison suffocating him, but even though the rules are known, there is no ambition to break them, because that would mean 'breaking the rules.' Archer cannot do that. He has too much to lose. His pampered, rigid place in the system is more important than passion and a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction, conveyed by those half-coveted/half-dreaded quick glances and stares. Scorsese presents what being acknowledged in this time and place was like, and fully realizes both the pointlessness of the grandeur and the terror of the loss of that sweet nothing. The aching coda grants a final memory to be re-lived, soaked up by the afternoon sun; one that represents distance more than anything. The Age of Innocence bleeds like a broken heart. Alas, the heart wasn't even adequately fulfilled so that it could be ruined. Archer missed that too.
nice reminder that daniel day lewis was young once. evidently he did not pop out the womb looking full woodcock
i'm sorry but i can't rate this because i was too distracted by how much daniel day-lewis's voice in this sounds like michael fassbender's
The length is definitely felt but the acting, writing, and directing are all top notch.
“You haven’t changed, Newland”
“I had changed, until I saw you again”
I’m amazed that it took me this long to finally view this movie. For the longest time it seemed like a “lesser” Scorsese film, and I think that is fully untrue. The acting in this film is beyond amazing, Daniel Day-Lewis is magnificent in this film. I also think Winona Ryder is another performance that I found truly fascinating. She does not just play the “clueless wife”, there’s something hidden beneath the surface that feels weirdly sinister about her. Almost like she wants to take ownership to Newland. Regardless, she’s putting more dimensions in this role and I think she is wonderfully well cast in this film. One…
Very beautiful shots & camera work, complex emotions behind timid & restrained acting and that ending was bittersweet.
The cuts he does at the beginning looking over the opera house were really doing it for me.
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