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Overview
Release Date:
4 September 1998 (USA) moreTagline:
Passion has no limitsPlot:
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Seen it 5 times. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sophie Marceau | ... | Elisabeth Laurier |
 | Stephen Dillane | ... | Charles Godwin |
| Dominique Belcourt | ... | Louisa Godwin |
| Kevin Anderson | ... | John Taylor |
| Lia Williams | ... | Constance |
 | Joss Ackland | ... | Lord Clare |
 | Sally Dexter | ... | Molly Holland |
| Emma Amos | ... | Ellen |
| Maggie McCarthy | ... | Mrs. Jago |
 | Wolf Kahler | ... | Sussman |
| Annabel Giles | ... | Amy Godwin |
| John Flanagan | ... | Robert Ames |
| Valerie Minifie | ... | Hannah |
| Diana Payan | ... | Mrs. Maidment |
| John Hodgkinson | ... | Carlo |
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Rated R for sexuality and brief strong language.Parents Guide:
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103 minColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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UK:15 | South Korea:18 | Iceland:L | Belgium:KT | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:R(A) (original rating) | Singapore:R21 (re-rating) (uncut) | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | USA:RMOVIEmeter: 
5% since last week
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Elisabeth: Do you know about Firelight?Louisa: What about it?
Elisabeth: It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.
[blows out lamp]
Elisabeth: You can do what you want, say what you want, be what you want, and when the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten it never happened.
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The artistry of this movie is not evident the first time you watch it because you notice nothing but the actors' brown eyes and the blue cold rooms of the mansion.
But watch it a few more times and you realize how balanced the story is, how themes of birth and death parallel heat and cold, love and hate.
The script is simple because silence and secrecy drive the plot. Compared to Jane Eyre, it is rather sparse, but so what?
I gave it a 10.