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Cousin Bette (1998)

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Director:

Des McAnuff

Starring:

Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Aden Young, Kelly MacDonald, Geraldine Chaplin

Genres:

Period Drama, US Premier, Great Literature on Film, Romantic Drama

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

M

Aspect ratios:

2.35:1

Running Time:

110 min

Cousin Bette

synopsis


COUSIN BETTE, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac, stars Jessica Lange in a delicious performance. Elisabeth Fisher (Jessica Lange), known to her relatives as Bette, is a humble seamstress in a burlesque theatre in Paris. She has always been taken for granted by her rich relations, and has never enjoyed the love and affections of an admirer. Bette falls in love with the penniless artist Wenceslas Steinbach (Aden Young) and saves his life when he tries to commit suicide. Excerting a control over him, Bette believes that her feelings of love are mutual. But when Wenceslas falls in love with Bette's pretty young cousin Hortense (Kelly Macdonald), it gives way to a chain of events that will see all of Bette's grasping relations dealt with...

 
 

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