The House of Mirth (2000)

Highly Recommended

UK/France/Germany/USA

Feature Film

Director: Terence Davies

Writers: Terence Davies, Edith Wharton

Cinematographer: Remi Adefarasin

Cast: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Eric Stoltz, Terry Kinney, Eleanor Bron, Jodhi May, Elizabeth McGovern

With an affectingly nuanced performance from Anderson and a beautifully refined aesthetic, Davies’s elegant adaptation of Wharton’s bitingly satirical tragedy follows the fall from grace of a New York society lady at the beginning of the twentieth century – a fall brought about as much by her virtues as her vices, as her friends’ hypocrisies gradually and decidedly take their toll. Iain.Stott