Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman

[altongrimes]

My favorite "Hollywood heart-throb honey" of all time. What a "living doll"!

[portialynne]

beautiful music and lovely synchronization with your collection of photos. my church minister used to take annual pilgrimages to thomas hardy "country" from the wessex novels...he would give us literary talks and boy was he a great, handsome actorish but pure minister...i think he identified with hardy's tormented heroes and heroines!

[pericraig]

Lovely music score.

[applesky007]

I fell in love with this book when I was in my twenties. Its been an ongoing afair and I have just purchased another copy (because everytime I lend it to someone, I strangely never get it back) to read and pass onto an Australian friend of mine who thinks Martina Cole rocks. She does. Never comes close to Tess tho.

[Treebard]

I too fell in love with the book in my twenties, after seeing the 1979 movie Tess. No matter who plays Tess, no one will ever be as perfect as Nastassia Kinski in my mind. She carried that strange alchemy of purity and seductiveness.

[Dioxinpie]

@Treebard "She carried that strange alchemy of purity and seductiveness" :)

[chris276100]

@Treebard Natassia looked the part, exquisitely beautiful and vulnerable, but

I felt that her accent detracted from an otherwise flawless performance. Gemma

Arterton is my favourite Tess, but Justine Waddell comes a very close second. All

three adaptations are beautiful in their own way

[reginacaeli123]

@Treebard Brilliantly said: "She carried that strange alchemy of purity and seductiveness."

[kateslate1989]

I loved this and the book was amazing!

[Dioxinpie]

A beautiful, evocative musical score that imbues the right emotional resonance to this film. Haunting, playful, lush, affecting and tragic -- a musical narrative in itself.

[Treebard]

Diox, you expressed exactly how I feel about this score. Thanks.

[Treebard]

Except you forgot one adjective that describes the score, somewhat implied by "lush": Sensual (sexy).

[IAmANewYearsEveBaby]

the new BBC version is amazing! The person who plays Tess-Gemma Arteon is an amazing actress and just right for the part.

[JaimeDaviesWelshHero]

One of the greatest novels I have ever read. Hardy was a genius of literature.

[Muirmaiden]

Thanks for the info. I'm excited to see it as well.

[rudispider]

justine waddell is SOOOOOOOOO good in this film!!!!!!!

[Muirmaiden]

I'm interested to see how the upcoming BBC version presents Tess Of The D'Urbervilles. Apparently, it's a four-part miniseries.

[thisYTformsucks]

i was lucky enough to see some of it filmed this summer it looks amazing david blair is a very good director and it is lit very well too.

can't wait to see it properly :)

[gracelantern]

I like Natassja's version.

[tubewatch59]

I just realized, tonight is the 24th year, to this very date: Sunday 24th June 1984, 8:30pm. (about an hour to go, and 757382572 seconds elapsed since...) since I saw the original 1979 film on TV. It was SO good, I didn't even watch beyond the part where Angel kicks Tess out. I decided to wait a while, think about it, and watch it later. Took 2 years till I could find it on videotape. But worth the wait! Magnificent film.

[poliador]

Does anyone know what the instrument that is heard at the beginning is called. Is it an instrument with chordes? It sound like a hurdy-gurdy, or maybe a lute? What do you think?

[poliador]

Sarde's score for this movie was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe but those bastards did just that, still it received a Cesar. Fenominal piece of music!

[frodo322]

Where did you get the soundtrack from? Is it available somewhere? I love this film. It's my favourite.The music is just beautiful adn Nastasja was so lovely. Thank you so much

[Muirmaiden]

It's part of a CD called "Cinema's Classic Romances" conducted by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Vatinelle]

Merci à Muirmaiden pour ce joli clip illustré. Tess est-elle la victime du destin, ou n'est-elle pas plutôt celle du machisme de ses 2 hommes, Alec le démon et Angel Clare, l'ange qui fait la bête?

[lorylg]

do you know the name of the soundtrack of the fikm with Nastassja Kinski???

[kiddadd]

its called tess directed by roman polanski, i do think the newer version is better

[KellyGreen5555]

Nothing compares to Roman Polanski's version of Tess. Originally the role was intended for his wife Sharon Tate ("For Sharon" is in the credits)but, sadly, that was not possible. Nastassia Kinski did a great job & truly is one of the great beauties of cinema. Classic beauty is in short supply these days.

[Muirmaiden]

I enjoy both versions (and own both, along with the novel), but I have a special place in my heart for the A&E miniseries. It just seemed to fit so well with the book, and the romance between Angel and Tess was so watchable! Both films are good in different ways.

[KittyStarlight]

I have a special place in my heart for the A&E miniseries too. ^_^ (Once in a while they air it again on A&E...one hour at a time, in the middle of the night, part of A&E Classroom. ^_^) I thought the images you put at the end were especially powerful (Stonehenge black-and-white illustration...and then Tess's face with Stonehenge, at the very end). (It was where she was caught...but it was her last haven/refuge, too.) (Hmmm...the LEGO version should've built a LEGO Stonehenge!)

[AldoGodolfus]

That wonderful music score was written by the great French composer Phillippe Sarde. The music on this clip is not the original recording. There is a great release available with TESS plus more great composition with THE TENANT. Sarde's score for mine is the greatest film score ever written. A masterpiece of a a score and a masterpiece of a film.

[AldoGodolfus]

Philippe with one 'l'. My apologies.

[AldoGodolfus]

Sarde's 'Tess' score - what a beautiful, powerful piece of work.

[tubewatch59]

Very very interesting. The 79 film was my favourite film. It sure was unique. I haven't seen the other one yet. It brought back some memories from '84 when I saw it first. That music sounds a bit different from the record I have. All the different impressions of Tess through the years. Thank you for this presentation.

[bella1957]

Nastassja Kinski was perfect in the title role as Tess. I recall going to the theatre with my then boyfriend {husband now}and just adoring how well she played the role of Tess.I liked her very much but she seemed to fade in the distance as an actress....too bad.