The Age of Innocence
1993
**½
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Stuart Wilson
In the 1870s a wealthy New Yorker is engaged to be married to a socialite, but he falls in love with her cousin instead.
This adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel is a tragic love story and a depiction of social mores and things unsaid. The Oscar winning costumes, as well as the production design, cinematography, editing and acting are all first class, but the characters are lifeless and the film on the whole left me cold.
