#858: The Age of Innocence/"Una Furtiva Lagrima"

My homage to Scorsese's underrated masterpiece based on Edith Wharton's classic novel, set to "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from the opera L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti, and containing quotes from the source novel.

As usual, no copyright infringement is intended, all music and film clips belong to their respective copyright holders, and there is no monetary gain from the making/publishing of this video montage. I only wanted people to become aware of this beautiful film.

This is (sort of) part of the group http://www.youtube.com/group/1001moviesgroup dedicated to making videos for the never-ending, always-changing book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die." THE AGE OF INNOCENCE was on the list but has since been dropped in favor of keeping the same number of must-see movies and being replaced with more recent films. To that, I say screw it: one needs to see Scorsese's romance far more than FORREST GUMP. So hence I'm adding it to the group's films.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• The
• Age
• of
• Innocence
• Scorsese
• Michelle
• Pfeiffer
• Daniel
• Day-Lewis
• gilded
• age

[vanhattan]

Gosh, I have never seen this movie....I must watch today. Great choice of music, not sure if this score is from the movie or not but quite beautiful. Great Job!

[RubyTuesday717]

@vanhattan This is not original score from the film (whose composer was the great Elmer Bernstein), it is from an Italian opera. But I'm really happy you're going to see this for the first time, it means I've done my job.

[JA101K]

First of all, this is an incredible tribute to probably the most beautiful damn film I've seen (at the theater, to boot!). To me and perhaps to others, Scorsese's 'The Age of Innocence' is a film that stepped whole and untainted from the classic era of Hollywood as it was in its Golden Age (married here to the "Gilded Age" of history). Thank you for this wonderful work.

~Jeff

[RubyTuesday717]

@JA101K You're welcome, Jeff. :)

[secretcinema1]

Another great job. As usual the marriage of film and music is perfect and the intelligent editing finds motifs and meanings in the images. Makes me want to watch the film again. I know it must take you a long time to do these tributes but it's always worth it. Already looking forward to your next one

[RubyTuesday717]

@secretcinema1 Thanks so much! Any response saying they want to watch the film, either for the first time or again, is worth the time and trouble. I hadn't planned on making one, I just heard this opera piece 3 weeks ago and the images from the film came into my head, and I whipped this up in about 2 weeks, which is really quick for me.

And I think my next one will be concerning the films of Douglas Sirk.

[lilora70]

So I cried and cried...with this movie and with your beautiful video. Sadly I can relate to the movie. I'm not even sure why I'm writing this here, but it was just painful how both of us had to drift apart because we were scared of the limitations and barriers we thought existed between us. I haven't been able to fall in love again. I'm sure he hasn't either. I'm scared to see myself age without him. But the final scene of the movie seems so vivid.

[miltdta]

the greatest love story/film/book EVER...

[1PinkCadillac]

I love this movie

[netoretor]

bravo! bravissimo!

[jesienna83]

this is so beautiful.. thank you..

[1PinkCadillac]

Anybody know where i can get this movie? I want 2 see it soooo bad!

[laurids2007]

this music is perfect with these scenes... thanks for posting!

[JasonMovieGuy]

Where are the scenes with Winona Ryder?

[KriBlackRoson]

it has opera? now I want to watch the movie so bad *-* haha

<3<3<3

bravo donizetti!!!

[lynnsdecor]

This has always been a favorite movie of mine...thank you for making this...it is beautiful!