: The Age of Innocence
Author: Edith Wharton
Director: Martin Scorsese
I thought of this as one of those boring literary period pieces and I’d never seen it, but it showed up on one of my movie channels and I saw it was based on a book by Edith Wharton, who’s an author I admire. Yes, the movie is slow, and not that much happens in terms of story, but it is interesting. It does a great job of capturing New York in the pre-twentieth century era, particularly life in the upper class. The story is about a lawyer who’s engaged but falls in love with another woman who is estranged from her husband. Morals of the day prevent their having an affair, as much as they desire it, so the whole thing is much ado about nothing, and yet the emotions involved are just as powerful. The subduction of passion is clear and fascinating, but what I liked best were the smarmy jabs at the upper crust and the mockery of the fashionable.
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