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Tess
During the Victorian era in England, Farmer John Dorbyfield sends his young daughter Tess to the family home of Dorberville after learning that he is descended from the family, but finds out after her delegations that she is not from the Durrville family and is stuck between a man willing to give her everything for sex , And another man working as a farmer.
19 January 1931, Palmers Green, London, England, UK
18 February 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
1 August 1918, Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK
21 July 1945, Atherston, Warwickshire, England, UK
January 08, 2007
Though not one of Polanski's best features, this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's challenging novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is intelligent if flawed, but it's nice to look at due to excellent production values, particularly cinematography.
January 01, 2000
een in the context of Roman Polanski's career it becomes something rich and strange, shaded into terror by the naturalistic absurdism that is the basis of Polanski's style.
February 19, 2010
Tess is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.
February 25, 2014
The film, like its source, is filled with pessimistic fatalism, but it spares no pity for the instruments of fate [...] What, if anything, this meant to Polanski remains unknowable.
October 23, 2004
This is a wonderful film.
February 06, 2014
Unexciting.
April 18, 2014
Roman Polanski is one of those men who, despite his icky treatment of women in real life, manages to create strong and compelling female characters for the screen.
February 19, 2010
Insufferably long, but very good in parts.
May 20, 2003
Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean.
February 19, 2010
Visually, Tess is a masterpiece, capturing in amazing detail the scenery and atmosphere of the England of yore. The film's chief drawback, however, is its lack of vitality.
March 06, 2014
This is Kinski's show and she flat out steals it.
June 24, 2006
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
