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The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, is by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures.
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company.
- Edith Wharton
- 1920
Oct 1, 1993 · Based on Edith Wharton's novel, the film follows a young lawyer who falls in love with a woman separated from her husband in 19th-century New York society. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder.
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- Drama, Romance
- Martin Scorsese
- 1993-10-01
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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
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Jun 5, 2024 · The Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal.
- Edith Wharton
- 1920
Aug 14, 2005 · Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about a man trapped by social codes and unrequited love. The film explores the brutality beneath the manners of 1870s New York society, with a moving camera and a narrator's voice.
A sumptuous romance set in the Gilded Age Manhattan, where a socialite (Winona Ryder) and a scandalized cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer) challenge the codes and rituals of Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis). Watch the trailer, read the essay, and explore the film features on The Criterion Collection.
