I have watched a 4K remaster version of the movie “Tess”. The director is Roman Polanski and the main actress is Nastassja Kinski (also starring in “Cat People”, in which David Bowie made the theme song
). It was first released in 1979 and won Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, British Academy Film Award, César du cinéma français, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Film Critics Associations. It is based on a novel named “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy. The stage of the story is in England of late 19C, and the movie is fidelitous to the original novel in most part with slight omissions of original descriptions that are not so important for the main line of the story. It is all about the lines of coincidences that act as zemblanity of this tragic character, Tess. Only one of the different coincidental lines is sufficient to avoid the tragic outcome of this story. However, everything is mal oriented to the last part of the story in any case. This sense of tragedy is a common theme timelessly applicable to any sort of tragedy. Socio-politically the story is of late 19C and feminism is arisen in the story in its enfant form, though it is still not as strong as the form in modern age. Literary-historically the original novel is a masterpiece of its age, and have strength as such. The individuality and existence of humanity take forms in the main character. The organization and camera works of the movie is stylish. Overall, this is a Must-Watch movie for all the people.
