The Age of Innocence (1993)
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Tagline:
« In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules. »
Actors:
Newland Archer
Ellen Olenska
May Welland
Female Opera Singer
Male Opera Singer
Rating:
(75’296 votes)
(75’296 votes)
Quotes:
« Newland: You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure that.
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« Ellen: I'm enduring it.
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« Ellen: Newland. You couldn't be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way I'll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can't go back to that way of thinking. Don't you see? I can't love you unless I give you up.
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« Ted Archer: The day before she died, she asked to see me alone, remember? She said she knew we were safe with you and always would be because once when she asked you to, you gave up the thing you wanted most.
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« Newland Archer: [after a long pause] She never asked. She never asked me.
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Trailer:
The Age of Innocence
Runtime:139 minutes
Plots:
In 1870s high-society New York, a young lawyer falls for a woman separated from her husband while he’s engaged to her cousin.
Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a kindred spirit and they fall in love.
Wealthy lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland in 1870s New York. On the surface, it is a perfect match. But when May’s beautiful cousin Countess Ellen Olenska, who is estranged from her brutish husband, arrives in town, Newland begins to question the meaning of passion and love as he desperately pursues a relationship with Ellen, even though she has been made a social outcast by Archer’s peers.
