| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Beautiful, lyrical and bucolic with each shot carefully-composed in a very painterly way. Moreover, well acted at the correct leisurely pace to allow the carefully-plotted story to breathe and the individual scenes to generate sufficient emotion to carry the drama forward.
The story depicts a culture so socially confined that respectability is more important than love and happiness - with tragic consequences as a proud young woman plays-out her masochistic fatalism against the changing seasons.
Like the heroine in an Anthony Trollope novel, you admire the stubbornness that makes the eponymous character so sexually-attractive to men; yet no man can really measure up to her child-of-nature qualities - nor tame her. Only when she takes a hand in her own destiny does she begin to live fully.
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