"Attention, grand film romantique ! Neil LaBute, qui nous avait habitués à des comédies sarcastiques telles que En compagnie des hommes et Nurse Betty, se lance dans une belle histoire d'amour suivant deux couples, à deux époques différentes. Maud, jeune universitaire, est férue de littérature victorienne, tout comme Roland, boursier américain. Ils découvrent que leurs auteurs favoris, Christabel LaMotte et Randolph Henry Ash, ont eu une ..."
"Modern love and classic romantic passion meet in this lush adaptation of A.S. Byatt's brilliant novel. Academics Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) and Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow) are experts on the work of two different Victorian poets. As they pursue a possible connection between their subjects, the two sleuths begin to stumble toward a romance of their own. Though it necessarily loses some of the depth of Byatt's original, Possession i ..."
"Wilde could easily have been nothing more than another well-dressed literary film from the British costume drama stable, but thanks to a richly textured performance from Stephen Fry in the title role, it becomes something deeper--a moving study of how the conflict between individual desires and social expectations can ruin lives. Oscar Wilde's writing may be justifiably legendary for its sly, barbed wit, but Wilde the film is far from a ..."
"This is a set of some of A&E's most popular literary adaptations on DVD in one 'mega-set', as follows: Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Emma, A&E's Original Movie Victoria & Albert, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, R.D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, and the Baroness D'Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel (Books 1, 2, & 3)."
"Earnest and well-meaning, this film also accumulates power as it goes along, despite its inability to generate any moral complexity. But then how complex can you get in a story about the Japanese imprisonment and mistreatment of an international group of women (including Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, and Julianna Margulies)? Written and directed by Bruce Beresford, it's based on a true story. Japanese brutality has been well chronicle ..."
"Although Sunshine was made by a Hungarian, István Szabó, and deals with the history of Hungary as refracted through three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family, you might be more inclined to give it three hours of your own life if you approach it as a David Lean movie in spirit. It is an English-language picture, and Maurice Jarre's music recalls his score for Doctor Zhivago. Szabó emulates Lean's intimate-epic style of merging the s ..."
"Es ist wohl die berühmteste Geschichte der englischen Autorin Jane Austen (1775-1817). Zahlreiche Verfilmungen haben versucht, diesem Werk gerecht zu werden. Laut einhelliger Meinung der weltweiten Jane Austen-Fangemeinde, zählt diese von Andrew Davies geschriebene Fassung zu den Besten. Es geht um die Familie Bennett. Mutter Bennett (Alison Steadman) hat nur eine Sorge: All ihre fünf Töchter sind im heiratsfähigen Alter, doch wo sind d ..."
"Although Sunshine was made by a Hungarian, István Szabó, and deals with the history of Hungary as refracted through three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family, you might be more inclined to give it three hours of your own life if you approach it as a David Lean movie in spirit. It is an English-language picture, and Maurice Jarre's music recalls his score for Doctor Zhivago. Szabó emulates Lean's intimate-epic style of merging the s ..."
Caleb's Crossing(Unabridged) Library Edition by Geraldine Brooks, JenniferEhle Cd, Published 2012 by Blackstone Audiobooks Audiolivro, Cd ISBN-13: 978-1-4551-3626-1, ISBN: 1-4551-3626-3
"Growing up in a small settlement, Bethia meets a Wampanoag chieftain's son, Caleb. They forge a friendship, and when Bethia's father decides to educate Caleb, Caleb soon lands in Cambridge, studying among the colonial elite, closely observed by Bethia."
"A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's ..."
Caleb's Crossing(Unabridged) by Geraldine Brooks, JenniferEhle Aparelho De Áudio Digital Pré-Carregado, Published 2011 by Blackstone Audiobooks ISBN-13: 978-1-4417-9021-7, ISBN: 1-4417-9021-7
"A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's ..."
"A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's ..."
Caleb's Crossing(Unabridged) A Novel Geraldine Brooks and JenniferEhle by Geraldine Brooks, JenniferEhle Cd, 10 Pages, Published 2011 by Penguin Audio Audiobook, Cd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-242970-9, ISBN: 0-14-242970-8
"Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours--Read by TBA A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book."
"Product Description Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still.When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep ..."
A Wind in the Door(Unabridged) (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'engle, JenniferEhle Audio, Published 2012 by Listening Library (Audio) Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-307-91661-7, ISBN: 0-307-91661-8
""There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, fero ..."
"A Wind In The Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle In Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill (mi ..."