The Age of Innocence

Name: The Age of Innocence
Released: 1993-9-10
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alex McCowen, Richard E. Grant

PG
2h 18m
1993

87%

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Martin Scorsese, one of the great directors of our time, directs Oscar®-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989 Best Actor, My Left Foot), Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in a brilliant adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870s. At the center of the film is Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), an upstanding attorney who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Engaged to the lovely but ordinary socialite May Welland (Ryder), Newland resigns himself to a life of quiet complacency. But when May's unconventional cousin returns to New York amid social and sexual scandal, Newland risks everything for a chance at true love. The Age of Innocence is a spellbinding portrait of hidden romance and regret.

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Producer:

Barbara De Fina

Writer:

Martin Scorsese, Jay Cocks

Cast:

Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alex McCowen, Richard E. Grant, Miriam Margolyes, Daniel Day-Lewis

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: Equal measures romantic and wistful, Martin Scorsese's elegant adaptation of The Age of Innocence is a triumphant exercise in both stylistic and thematic restraint.

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Sean Axmaker

... a magnificent piece of filmmaking, rich and textured and at times lovingly mannered as Scorsese appropriates and integrates silent movie devices into his yesteryear portrait.

Few endings are as important to the final perception of a movie as is the ending of The Age of Innocence. Martin Scorsese is obsessed with all the timelines of New York, and Daniel Day-Lewis is from another planet. Full review in Spanish

Scorsese's career is filled with New York stories; however, they rarely take place in such fine surroundings.

An exquisite and absorbing drama that's the cinematic equivalent of a good read.

This is a magical tribute to a long-gone world. And in the tradition of the great films of romantic heartbreak, it leaves us in an after- glow of yearning.

August 4, 2021

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