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Impressionable young Tess is sent by her alcoholic father to visit her rich relatives and apply for a job. There the strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.
1949, Cupar, Scotland, UK
1912, England, UK
14 August 1918, Chingford, England, UK
24 January 1961, Berlin, Germany
16 April 1932, Chindrieux, Savoie, France
10 March 1956, Newcastle, England, UK
8 February 1952, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
13 June 1943, England, UK
1929, France
1 August 1918, Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK
18 February 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
24 August 1924, Newmarket, Suffolk, England, UK
18 October 1928, Wharfedale, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 June 1917, Marylebone, London, England, UK
19 January 1931, Palmers Green, London, England, UK
10 September 1944, Birmingham, England, UK
27 April 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
21 July 1945, Atherston, Warwickshire, England, UK
18 July 1946, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK
March 06, 2014
This is Kinski's show and she flat out steals it.
October 23, 2004
This is a wonderful film.
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
Tess is a sensitive, intelligent screen treatment of a literary masterwork.
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
Insufferably long, but very good in parts.
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.
February 06, 2014
Unexciting.
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.
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.
June 24, 2006
Tess tells one rather more about its director's much publicised preoccupations than about Hardy's themes.
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.
