The Age of Innocence

Director: Martin Scorsese

1993 / 139min / DCP

One breathtaking composition follows another in Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece about social mores (and taboos) amongst New York’s viperous moneyed classes in late 19th-century New York, brought to life by an all-star lineup of craftspeople including cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production designer Dante Ferretti, and composer Elmer Bernstein. In front of the camera there are Daniel Day-Lewis and Pfeiffer suffering beautifully as wealthy lawyer Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska, the divorced pariah whom he yearns for; of Pfeiffer, Scorsese would later say she “can play conflict with her eyes and face better than almost any movie star.”

Presented in DCP 4K

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