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Ohh, this seems good. A little Anna Karenina, I'll be checking it out!
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This is another not well known book made into a movie. There's a bunch of those this month. The book sounds interesting. I love period pieces.
Funny you mentioned Anna Karenina, one of the screen writers wrote for that film as well.
I read this book years ago for my old book club. I vaguely remember it. If I'm remembering it correctly her husband was on death's door older and it was some what of a thriller. I can't remember how it ends.
The preview looks okay. I doubt it will air where I live, but I would like to see it. Hopefully it will air on Neflix or HBO.
The preview looks okay. I doubt it will air where I live, but I would like to see it. Hopefully it will air on Neflix or HBO.
Andrea wrote: "±·²¹³Ùá±ô¾±²¹ wrote: "Ohh, this seems good. A little Anna Karenina, I'll be checking it out!"This is another not well known book made into a movie. There's a bunch of those this month. The book sounds ..."
Really? Now that's a funny coincidence! He/she must like period pieces a lot!
If it's really kind of a thriller, I'm even more up to watching it. And I just saw a movie with Alicia Vikander and she is really good!
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Tulip Fever (2016)
1h 47min | Drama, Romance | 15 July 2016 (USA)
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.
In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy.
Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist.
As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception -- and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels -- a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.
Watch the trailer here: /videos/1051...
Which was better the book or the movie?