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Cousin Bette (Oxford World's Classics)
The story of the Hulot family. Risen to eminence under Napoleon I, their aristocratic values leave them vulnerable in the money-ridden bourgeois Paris of the 1840s. It is also the story of Bette herself, the poor relation whose patient malice finally leads to their destruction.
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Jessica Lange is a scorned woman who seeks sweet revenge by manipulating a sexual temptress named Jenny (Elisabeth Shue) into doing her dirty work. With little persuasion, Jenny is soon sleeping with, then discarding, every man is Paris, setting off a chain of disastrous events that ensnares almost everyone in its web - everyone, that is, except Cousin Bette. Who knew adultery, financial ruin, life-threatening duels and murder could be such fun? The exceptional talents of Oscar(R)-winner Jessica...
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Format: DVD: 2-Disc Set, Cousin Bette
Melodrama DVD - An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protg in this classic BBC drama based on the novel by Honor de Balzac and starring revered British actress Helen Mirren in her very first mini-series. Cousin Bette is approaching middle-age, and earns her keep as an embroiderer whose beautiful work belies the pent-up resentment she feels towards her wealthy family. When her handsome protg runs off with her gorgeous young niece, an infuriated Bette determines to make the lives of her pompous family members a living hell. - Cousin Bette (DVD)
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Not too long ago, my friend Harold told me that if he didn't have to earn a living, he would just read Balzac. This is something a literate Francophone in the middle of his life could wish for reasonably, because Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote over 90 novels and a number of plays to comprise the definitive chronicle of his era -- La Comédie Humaine -- giving Harold sufficient material to engage his days. Balzac, who enjoyed popular success in his lifetime, influenced a number of significant writers...
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Cousin Bette [Widescreen]
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Cousin Bette DVD 2PK Our Price: $39.99 $10 Off orders over $60! Plus Free Shipping! Details > Item No.: CBET400 2 DVD Set Balzac's devious protagonist wreaks havoc on those who have wronged her in this acclaimed presentation from Masterpiece Theatre. Margaret Tyzack is the poor, plain spinster, Bette Fischer, who plots wicked revenge on her wealthy cousin's family with the help of a greedy, irresistibly sexy siren (Helen Mirren) in 19th-century Paris. Also starring Colin Baker, Thorley...
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Format: DVD, Cousin Bette
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An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protégé in this classic BBC drama based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac and starring revered British actress Helen Mirren in her very first mini-series. Cousin Bette is approaching middle-age, and earns her keep as an embroiderer whose beautiful work belies the pent-up resentment she feels towards her wealthy family. When her handsome protégé runs off with her gorgeous young niece, an infuriated...
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Jessica Lange (A Thousand Acres) and Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) star in this witty satire set in mid-19th century France. Based on the writings of Honore de Balzac, "Cousin Bette" is a gleeful tale of lust, greed and murder. LBX 1.85:1/ English:Dolby Surround/ SUB:Spanish.
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Cousin Bette is set against a back drop of decadent Parisian society. The poor cousin of Baroness Adeline Hulot, Lisbeth Fischer (Cousin Bette), nurses deep-seated jealousy and resentment against the Hulot family. She eventually takes her revenge on the ones that betrayed her and she will not rest until she has them eating out of the palm of her hand.
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“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac’s “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.”
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Jessica Lang is a scorned woman who seeks sweet revenge by manipulating a sexual temptress names Jenny (Elisabeth Shue) into doing her dirty work. With little persuasion, Jenny is soon sleeping with, then discarding every man in Paris, setting off a chain of disastrous events that ensnares almost everyone in its web--everyone, that is, except Cousin Bette. Who knew adultery, financial ruin, life-threatening duels and murder could be such fun?
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Not too long ago, my friend Harold told me that if he didn't have to earn a living, he would just read Balzac. This is something a literate Francophone in the middle of his life could wish for reasonably, because Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote over 90 novels and a number of plays to comprise the definitive chronicle of his era -- La Comédie Humaine -- giving Harold sufficient material to engage his days. Balzac, who enjoyed popular success in his lifetime, influenced a number of significant writers...
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Not too long ago, my friend Harold told me that if he didn't have to earn a living, he would just read Balzac. This is something a literate Francophone in the middle of his life could wish for reasonably, because Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote over 90 novels and a number of plays to comprise the definitive chronicle of his era -- La Comédie Humaine -- giving Harold sufficient material to engage his days. Balzac, who enjoyed popular success in his lifetime, influenced a number of significant writers...
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Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of the 1840s, spinster Bette Fisher (Jessica Lange) steps in to "take care" of her relatives after a decline in the Hulot family fortunes, mainly due to wastrel Hector Hulot (Hugh Laurie). After penniless sculptor...
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Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics)
Paperback: 496 pages (2002-02-12). Publisher: Modern Library; 2002-02-12. Label: Modern Library. Studio: Modern Library. ISBN: 0375759077. Average Customer Review: based on 23 reviews. Sales Rank in Books: #394108.
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