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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 1980 (Digital restoration 2012) \u2013 185′ –\u00a0 Classic,\u00a0 PERIOD & HISTORY, DRAMA, ROMANCE, FILMS & LITERATURE In the Victorian period, a rural clergyman tells John Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d’Urberville family — now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d’Uberville living in a manor house less than a day’s carriage ride away. Alec d’Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful “cousin” and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually, Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess also takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel Claire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TESS | 1980 (Digital restoration 2012) \u2013 185′ –\u00a0 Classic,\u00a0 PERIOD & HISTORY, DRAMA, ROMANCE, FILMS & LITERATURE Written by:\u00a0G\u00e9rard Brach,\u00a0John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski. Based on the Book by:\u00a0Thomas hardy. Directed by:\u00a0Roman Polanski. Starring:\u00a0Nastassja Kinski,\u00a0Peter Firth,\u00a0Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles, Suzanna Hamilton, Caroline Embling Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 1979 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,119,43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-history","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25640,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions\/25640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:\u00a0G\u00e9rard Brach,\u00a0John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0Thomas hardy.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Roman Polanski.
\nStarring:\u00a0Nastassja Kinski,\u00a0Peter Firth,\u00a0Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles, Suzanna Hamilton, Caroline Embling
\nOfficial Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 1979 and 2012. Toronto International Film Festival 2012. 5 Academy Awards Nominations 1981 including Best Director. Winner Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costumes). 3 C\u00e9sar Awards Winner 1980 (Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Director).
\nIn English.
\nA\u00a0The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n