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The House of Mirth (2000)

The House of Mirth is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Based on Edith Wharton's classic, the film follows a single social climber and she seeks a husband and burns many bridges in between.

Terence Davies writes and directs.

Starring Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Anthony LaPaglia, Dan Aykroyd, Laura Linney, Terry Kinney, Elizabeth McGovern, Johdi May, Pearce Quigley, Penny Downie, and Eleanor Bron

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by Anonymousreply 43October 15, 2024 9:03 PM

I loved this movie. Thought Anderson was sensational. It felt so claustrophobic at times it felt like I was the one wearing a corset.

by Anonymousreply 1July 29, 2024 12:34 AM

Underrated movie and I loved the tragic ending. Gillian was very good. I can’t believe that she was ignored by the Academy.

by Anonymousreply 2July 29, 2024 12:39 AM

R1 Yes, this cemented Anderson as more than just the "science fiction" actress

by Anonymousreply 3July 29, 2024 12:39 AM

The entire cast is unconventionally good.

by Anonymousreply 4July 29, 2024 12:40 AM

Laura Linney was my favorite. So nasty

by Anonymousreply 5July 29, 2024 12:43 AM

It IS The House of Mirth!

by Anonymousreply 6July 29, 2024 12:49 AM

Why Gillian Anderson Why did you not marry the very wealthy man& then get back at all the people who wronged you at a later time?

by Anonymousreply 7July 29, 2024 1:09 AM

R7 Because she wasn't in love with him. She let her emotions get the better of her.

Lily was selfish and impulsive.

by Anonymousreply 8July 29, 2024 2:46 AM

I have to post this but..."What's LOVE got to do with it, What's LOVE a secondhand emotion."

Lack of $$$$$ is the root of all evil!!!Words

by Anonymousreply 9July 29, 2024 3:41 AM

Great ending

by Anonymousreply 10July 29, 2024 1:41 PM

One of the greatest novels of all time. Movie was fine.

by Anonymousreply 11July 29, 2024 1:44 PM

The cloral stuff that she was addicted to, do they still make it?

by Anonymousreply 12July 29, 2024 2:13 PM

[quote]Laura Linney was my favorite. So nasty

BERTHA IS A RIGHT OLD CUNT

by Anonymousreply 13July 29, 2024 2:14 PM

[quote]Lily was selfish and impulsive.

No, Lily was too moral for her mileu. She couldn't bend her character to fit the times.

You wanna talk selfish, how about Undine Spragg? No morals at all and she flourishes.

by Anonymousreply 14July 29, 2024 2:19 PM

Watching her suffer one indignity after another made ME want to drink poison. Just tragic. I thought Gillian gave a powerful performance.

by Anonymousreply 15July 29, 2024 3:12 PM

well done, I do recall Dan Akoyd sort of sticking out like a sore thumb

by Anonymousreply 16July 29, 2024 3:15 PM

I'm not sure I've seen the film since the cinema but is there as scene where Eleanor Bron humiliates Gillian Anderson?

by Anonymousreply 17July 29, 2024 3:55 PM

R17 Yes, Bron plays Anderson's extremely Victorian aunt who humiliates her in public and in private in both life and death

by Anonymousreply 18July 30, 2024 3:19 AM

The last scenes and the end credits play the third movement of Borodin's beautiful string quartet No 2

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by Anonymousreply 19July 30, 2024 3:46 AM

That olde Bitch, hated her!!

Awesome music though, suits the film perfectly.

by Anonymousreply 20July 30, 2024 3:51 AM

R20 who was the bitch? Eleanor Bron? Gillian Anderson?

by Anonymousreply 21July 30, 2024 4:17 AM

R16 Aykroyd didn't stick out, he was very good I thought.

by Anonymousreply 22July 30, 2024 4:53 AM

Eleanor Bron, of course...OLDE Victorian Aunt, she should have gotten some DICK, loosen the Fuck up!

by Anonymousreply 23July 30, 2024 2:49 PM

I will always remember Eleanor Bron and William Daniels fondly from Two for the Road. And, of course, she played Patsy's self centered mother on Ab Fab.

by Anonymousreply 24July 30, 2024 5:10 PM

Eleanor Bron was also great in Women in Love with Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, and Oliver Reed

by Anonymousreply 25July 31, 2024 3:44 AM

They keep saying they're finally going to make a movie or miniseries of "The Custom of the Country," but they fail to do so.

by Anonymousreply 26July 31, 2024 3:46 AM

R11 what about Ethan Frome?

by Anonymousreply 27August 17, 2024 8:45 PM

The film utterly heartbreaking

by Anonymousreply 28August 17, 2024 8:47 PM

Amazing novel and a damn solid film.

by Anonymousreply 29August 17, 2024 9:18 PM

I hope that no one tries to remake this. They’d have to do a bang up job.

by Anonymousreply 30August 18, 2024 12:28 AM
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by Anonymousreply 31August 18, 2024 12:40 AM

Eleanor Bron really is a great actress. Glad she is remembered

by Anonymousreply 32August 18, 2024 3:25 AM

[quote] It felt so claustrophobic at times it felt like I was the one wearing a corset.

🙄

by Anonymousreply 33August 18, 2024 3:39 AM

I spent the better part of this century trying not to Lily Bart myself. Gillian was award-worthy.

by Anonymousreply 34August 18, 2024 3:42 AM

Is Gillian a good actress?

by Anonymousreply 35October 14, 2024 6:27 PM

Eleanor Bron also good in the original Bedazzled with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook featuring this catchy number.

House of Mirth is excellent and I put it alongside other period drama favourites. I can’t however think of a more depressing day than a double bill of House of Mirth and Wings of the Dove although both are excellent. Maybe add Portrait of a Lady to make it a three and then I think I’d jump out of the window backwards after!

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by Anonymousreply 36October 14, 2024 6:35 PM

Anyone know any other period dramas in this vein? I’d love to watch some other movies like this one.

by Anonymousreply 37October 14, 2024 6:45 PM

R36 has some good suggestions, R37.

by Anonymousreply 38October 14, 2024 9:00 PM

R37 Here is basically every period film I can think of. Some are more comic, others sad, all have good acting and writing:

The Go Between (1971)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

The Europeans (1979)

Heat and Dust (1981)

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Gandhi (1982)

A Passage to India (1984)

Amadeus (1984)

Out of Africa (1985)

A Room with a View (1985)

84 Charring Cross Road (1987)

Dangerous Liaisons (1987)

Maurice (1987)

The Last Emperor (1987)

Valmont (1989)

Henry V (1989)

The Enchanted April (1992)

The Secret Garden (1992)

Orlando (1992)

Howards End (1992)

The Remains of the Day (1993)

The Age of Innocence (1993)

The Madness of King George (1993)

The Piano (1993)

Schindler's List (1994)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

Emma (1996)

The English Patient (1996)

Hamlet (1996)

The Wings of the Dove (1997)

Washington Square (1997)

Amistad (1997)

Elizabeth (1998)

The Golden Bowl (2000)

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Gosford Park (2001)

David Copperfield (2001)

Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Finding Neverland (2004)

The White Countess (2005)

The Painted Veil (2007)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

The Last Station (2009)

The King's Speech (2010)

12 Years a Salve (2013)

Victoria and Abdul (2017)

The Favourite (2018)

And I am sure there are a ton of others I am forgetting! Happy watching!

by Anonymousreply 39October 14, 2024 11:15 PM

R37 Did that help?

by Anonymousreply 40October 15, 2024 5:20 PM

R139 yes. Thanks. There’s a couple I haven’t seen such as The Last Station and Victoria and Abdul.

by Anonymousreply 41October 15, 2024 7:11 PM

Warning: do not watch The Boy In Striped Pajamas.

It is the most appalling sentimental attempt to humanise Nazis and "both sides" the experiences of the persecutor and the persecuted.

OMG that poor little German boy accidentally getting into the gas chamber with the Jews! His poor parents! Fuck off.

by Anonymousreply 42October 15, 2024 8:11 PM

I worked in a library a long time ago and The House of Mirth was by far the most borrowed item that we had. By like a few hundred more loans that any other item. DVDs would tend to break or need to be replaced after 200 circs. Oddly, THOM, with almost 500 circs never had a problem. I always figured it was a movie that people borrowed intending to watch but then couldn't get in the mood for it. I loved the book; never saw the movie.

by Anonymousreply 43October 15, 2024 9:03 PM
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