cc Over 70 minutes of behind-the-scenes featurettes: "Tess: From Novel to Screen," "Filming Tess," "Tess: The Experience" Bonus previews Region: 1
[Special Edition] Audio: DDS
Rating: PG Genre: Drama Release Date: 09/28/2004 SubTitles: English/French/Espanol Dubbed: English Sound: DDS Run Time: 172 Minutes Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville riches, he is in for a major disappointment: Tess' new housemates are not D'Urbervilles at all, but a social-climbing family that has bought the name. Tess won three Oscars, including a "Best Cinematography" statuette for the late Geoffrey Unsworth and his successor Ghislain Cloquet. The film also served to catapult Nastassja Kinski to stardom.