#359 Vanity Fair

English name: Vanity Fair
Year: 2004
Country: USA/UK
Running Time: 141 min
Director: Mira Nair
Genre: Drama/Romance

This movie aired yesterday! But i didn't watch it! Because i watched Germany-Austria
So i watched it on DVD ^^ I bought it a time ago!!

OMG darn long! I watched it @ 3.30 AM till around 6 AM! Forgot it that its so long!!
Reese Witherspoon did a great performance! Not really liking her character! She's so stupid actually! And the ending! I like the alternative ending more! U can see that one in the special features on DVD! But the movie is way to rush! And way to long!! But it was ok to see it! I didn't feel sleepy @ all! So good movie? IT IS ^^




Summary:
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible
[credits to imdb.com]




Cast:
Reese Witherspoon - Rebecca 'Becky' Sharp Crawley
Romola Garai - Amelia Sedley Osborne
James Purefoy - Colonel Rawdon Crawley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - George Henry Osborne
Rhys Ifans - Major William Dobbin
Eileen Atkins - Miss Matilda Crawley
Geraldine McEwan - Lady Southdown
Gabriel Byrne - Marquess of Steyne
Kelly Hunter - Lady Steyne
Bob Hoskins - Sir Pitt Crawley Sr.
Douglas Hodge - Pitt Crawley Jr.
Natasha Little - Lady Jane Sheepshanks Crawley
Jim Broadbent - Mr. Osborne
Tony Maudsley - Joseph 'Jos' Sedley
John Franklyn-Robbins - Mr. Sedley
Deborah Findlay - Mrs. Mary Sedley
Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Lady Bareacres

Rating: ****
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