Elisabeth
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Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts.
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate.
Firelight: Directed by William Nicholson. With Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson. A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
- (4.9K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Nicholson
- 1998-09-04
- First Steps
- The Trail Grows Cold
- Spielberg’s Shame?
A few minor, short films under his belt in the early-60s, the young cinephile was dreaming of making a "real" movie by 1963, not even old enough to legally sign a contract. By the time of the filming of his first feature-length movie, he had already made contacts within Universal Pictures, who advised him on the filming of his next project, Firelig...
Only after he became a legendary figure decades later did interest in the lost print materialize. IMDb lists the film as coming in at over two hours, but, on YouTube, only minuscule fragments of a few scenes survive out in the wild. At one point, it was shown on Turner Classic Movies based on the watermark on the copy floating around the internet. ...
Though punching above his weight, the filmmaker looks back with no reverence for his teenage passion-project. He sees the film for what it was, a kid making his own movie in 1964, with no clue how to execute such a complicated endeavor, declaring it "one of the five worst films ever made anywhere" (via Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition)...
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In 1830s England, debt-ridden governess Elisabeth Laurier (Sophie Marceau) consents to bear a child with aristocrat Charles Godwin (Stephen Dillane), whose...
- (17)
- William Nicholson
- R
- Sophie Marceau
Sep 4, 1998 · Overview. In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate.
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. To defend her debt-hounded father, Swiss governess Elisabeth (Marceau) accepts a financial proposition from an anonymous English aristocrat. She spends three nights with him in a ...
