28-508: Tess or TESS may refer to: Film and theatre [ edit ] Tess (1979 film) , a 1979 film adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles Tess (2016 film) , a South African production Music [ edit ] Tess (band) , a Spanish pop band active from 2000 to 2005 Tess (musician) , a UK musician Tess Mattisson , a Swedish musician born 1978 Science and technology [ edit ] Trademark Electronic Search System,
56-551: A copy of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. She said it would make a great film and expressed interest in playing the part of Tess. It was the last time Polanski saw her alive, as she was departing back for America while he stayed on a while longer in Europe to finish working on a film. She was murdered by the Manson Family on 9 August 1969 while he was away. She was eight and a half months pregnant with their son, Paul Richard Polanski. The film
84-467: A dairy farm to work as a milkmaid. She meets Angel Clare, an aspiring young farmer from a respectable family. He believes Tess to be an unspoiled country girl, and completely innocent. The two fall in love, but Tess does not reveal her previous relationship with Alec until their wedding night. Disillusioned and heartbroken by the news, Angel rejects her. Deserted by her husband, Tess meets Alec d'Urberville again. She at first angrily rebuffs his advances, but
112-469: A separate, cohesive geographical and political identity has proved powerful, although it was originally created purely as an artistic conceit, and has spawned a lucrative tourist trade, and even a devolutionist Wessex Regionalist Party . (Note: The Isle of Wight , although today a separate administrative county, was considered to be a part of the county of Hampshire – and thus Upper Wessex – during Thomas Hardy's lifetime. Likewise, Alfredston ( Wantage ) and
140-484: A service of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , a space telescope designed to search for extra-solar planets Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate , a birth control pill Telescopic Sighting System , a tank/fighter aircraft sight Other uses [ edit ] Tess (given name) Various storms named Tess Nikolay Tess (1921–2006), member of
168-492: A wealthy family named d'Urberville living nearby, he and his wife send their daughter Tess to call on his presumed relations, and seek employment at the manor house . At the manor house live Alec d'Urberville and his mother. Tess is a beautiful girl, and Alec d'Urberville has an appetite for women. Alec and his mother know they are no relation to Tess, for their family name and coat of arms were purchased. Finding her naive, penniless and attractive, he sets about taking advantage of
196-523: Is Polanski's approved version of the film. This version recently was restored in 4K from the original negative under Polanski's supervision, and he attended its premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 81% based on reviews from 77 critics, with an average rating of 7.3/10 with the consensus: "A reverent adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess marries painterly cinematography and unhurried pacing to create an epic ode to perseverance." On Metacritic ,
224-450: Is complicated by the economic role Wessex played in Hardy's career. Considering himself primarily to be a poet, Hardy wrote novels mostly to earn money. Books that could be marketed under the Hardy brand of "Wessex novels" were particularly lucrative, which gave rise to a tendency to sentimentalised, picturesque, populist descriptions of Wessex (which, as a glance through most tourist giftshops in
252-820: Is dedicated to her ("To Sharon") at the beginning. Polanski wrote the screenplay in French with his usual collaborator Gérard Brach , then it was translated and expanded by John Brownjohn . The story line largely follows that of the book, although the role of Alec d'Urberville is toned down. Set in Dorset, England, the film was shot at various locations in France: Normandy ( Cotentin , la Hague , Omonville-la-Rogue , Éculleville , Sainte-Croix-Hague , le Vast , Bricquebec , Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou , Hermanville-sur-Mer ), Brittany ( Locronan , le Leslay , Plomelin ), and Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( Condette ). Scenes were also shot at
280-489: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tess (1979 film) Tess is a 1979 epic drama film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Nastassja Kinski , Peter Firth , and Leigh Lawson . It is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy 's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles . The screenplay was written by Gérard Brach , John Brownjohn , and Roman Polanski. The film received positive critical reviews upon release and
308-418: Is reconciled with him; he can finally accept and embrace her as his wife without passing moral judgment on her actions. They consummate their marriage, spending two nights of happiness together on the run from the law before Tess is captured sleeping at Stonehenge . An ending summary tells that she is convicted and hanged for murder. Polanski was inspired to make the film by his wife Sharon Tate , who gave him
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#1732855138739336-467: Is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, located in the south and southwest of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan . Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave
364-701: The Soviet Ministry for State Security, convicted in Latvia of mass deportations of Latvians in the 1940s See also [ edit ] TES (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tess . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tess&oldid=1173636754 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
392-555: The United States, which made it the 33rd highest-grossing film of 1980. The film premiered in France in 1979 at a length of 186 minutes. Polanski writes in his autobiography that he felt that the cut was incomplete, and rushed to meet the release date. The film premiered in 1980 in the U.S. at a re-edited length of 170 minutes. Later, overseas releases of the film in theaters and on home video ran as little as 136 minutes. The 170-minute cut
420-639: The château de Brocéliande in Paimpont . The megalithic site of Stonehenge was reconstructed in Morienval , a village located in Oise . Polanski was living in Europe as he was wanted as a fugitive after his conviction for sex with an underage girl in the United States. He had fled before sentencing and could have been extradited to the U.S. from the United Kingdom. During the third month of shooting, on 28 October 1978,
448-548: The cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth died of a heart attack. Most of the scenes he had shot were exteriors that occur in the first half of the film. Ghislain Cloquet shot the remainder of the film, including most of the interior scenes. Both Unsworth and Cloquet were nominated and won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Cloquet alone was nominated for the César Award for Cinematography, which he won. The original musical score
476-450: The concept of a fictional Wessex, it consisted merely of the small area of Dorset in which Hardy grew up; by the time he wrote Jude the Obscure , the boundaries had extended to include all of Dorset , Wiltshire , Somerset , Devon , Hampshire , much of Berkshire , and some of Oxfordshire , with its most north-easterly point being Oxford (renamed "Christminster" in the novel). Cornwall
504-513: The course of his research he has discovered the "Durbeyfields" are descended from the d'Urbervilles, a noble family whose lineage extends to the time of William the Conqueror . The family lost its land and prestige when the male heirs died out . The parson thinks Durbeyfield might like to know his origins as a passing historical curiosity. Durbeyfield soon becomes fixated upon the idea of using his noble lineage to better his family's fortunes. Finding
532-674: The death of her father puts the family in desperately hard times. Facing starvation, eviction and homelessness, Tess submits to Alec to support her mother and siblings. Shortly afterwards, Angel Clare returns from travelling abroad. A disastrous missionary tour in Brazil has ruined his health. Humbled, and having had plenty of time to think, he feels remorse for his treatment of Tess. He succeeds in tracking her down but leaves heartbroken when he finds her living with Alec. Tess realizes that going back to Alec has ruined her chances of happiness with Angel, and she murders Alec. Running away to find Angel, Tess
560-569: The film has a score of 82 out of 100 based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". In a review in The New York Times , Janet Maslin described Tess as "a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars and wrote: "This is a wonderful film; the kind of exploration of doomed young sexuality that, like Elvira Madigan , makes us agree that
588-456: The lovers should never grow old." The film is one of Polanski's rare love stories, and is one of his most highly acclaimed works. Tess was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture, at the 53rd Academy Awards and won three. It was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards (winning two), three British Academy Film Awards (winning one) and six César Awards (winning three). Thomas Hardy%27s Wessex Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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#1732855138739616-568: The place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in The Mayor of Casterbridge . In an 1895 preface to the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd he described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country". The actual definition of "Hardy's Wessex" varied widely throughout Hardy's career, and was not definitively settled until after he retired from writing novels. When he created
644-445: The situation. He tries to get her alone, and attempts to seduce her with strawberries and roses, but these efforts are parried by Tess. In time, he rapes her. For a time they grow closer, but after four months at the manor Tess returns home, and soon discovers she is pregnant. She is angry with her mother for placing her at risk when she knows so little of the world's cruelty. The baby is born sickly and dies. Sometime later, Tess goes to
672-403: The south-west reveals, remain popular with consumers today). Hardy's resurrection of the name "Wessex" is largely responsible for the popular modern use of the term to describe the south-west region of England (with the exception of Cornwall and arguably Devon). Today, a panoply of organisations take their name from Hardy to describe their relationship to the area. Hardy's conception of Wessex as
700-570: The surrounding area in North Wessex was part of Berkshire prior to the 1974 boundary changes but now lies in Oxfordshire .) Outer Wessex is sometimes referred to as Nether Wessex. The abbreviations for Thomas Hardy's novels that are used in the table are as follows: Artists such as Walter Tyndale , Edmund Hort New , Charles George Harper and others, have painted or drawn the landscapes, places and buildings described in Hardy's novels. Their work
728-409: Was also referred to but named "Off Wessex". Similarly, the nature and significance of ideas of "Wessex" were developed over a long series of novels through a lengthy period of time. The idea of Wessex plays an important artistic role in Hardy's works (particularly his later novels), assisting the presentation of themes of progress, primitivism, sexuality, religion, nature and naturalism. However, this
756-493: Was composed by Philippe Sarde and orchestrated by Peter Knight . It was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra . The melody played by the character Angel Clare on a recorder is a popular Polish folk song "Laura i Filon". Tess was released in theaters in the United States on 12 December 1980. During its entire theatrical run, the film grossed little over US$ 20 million (equivalent to US$ 67 million in 2023) in
784-462: Was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture , winning three for Best Cinematography , Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design . The story takes place in Thomas Hardy's Wessex during the 1880s. The events of the story are set in motion when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a chance conversation with John Durbeyfield, a simple villager. Tringham is a local historian, and in
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