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Sarah Waters: Books & Movies Discussion
Lumière:
Bumping this thread with a Happy Nan! :)
Hey Amanda -
Like I told ya, can't wait to resume our discussions in here...
~M
Lumière:
Greetings Amanda!
Have I ever got some news for you...
Sarah Waters' Affinity has been adapted into a movie! :D
Lumière:
I am so excited about this! 8)
Check out this link for more info...
http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1487&FID=42
Excerpt from that link:
Affinity
USA, 2008, 94 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Drama, Lesbian, Mystery / Thriller
Program: Opening Night
Language: English
DIRECTOR: Tim Fywell
This delicious period piece, based on Sarah Waters’ 1999 novel of the same name, is a women-in-prison movie with a gothic Victorian twist. Upper-class Margaret (Anna Madely), mourning her father’s recent death and looking for diversion, goes to Millbank Prison as a “Lady Visitor” — presumably to improve the female convicts but really as a way to step outside her limited, conventional world. When she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Selina (Zoe Tapper), an attractive young convict, Margaret’s do-gooding quickly falls by the wayside.
Nothing is what it seems as Margaret becomes smitten with Selina, who once enjoyed celebrity as a successful medium before being convicted of fraud and the mysterious assault of a young girl. Fans of Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith) will be happy to know that screenwriter Andrew Davies, fresh from adapting Jane Austen for the BBC, hews closely to her dark and eerie second novel. In preserving the atmospheric mood of the disturbing thriller, Davies faithfully transfers to the big screen Waters’ fascination with the seamy underbelly of Victorian propriety, where ladies’ frustrations find outlet in private sessions with a medium, and benevolence is a fragile facade for voyeuristic fascination.
Stylishly shot, Affinity features stellar performances from Anna Massey, Amanda Plummer and particularly Madely, who does a superb job of conveying the unspoken longings of the intelligent and frustrated young Margaret, who is as much imprisoned by her gender and class as the mysterious Selina is by bars and chains. — MONICA NOLAN
The movie will premiere at the San Francisco International LGBT Film festival ...
Thursday, June 19, 7:00 PM
Castro Theatre
I wish I could be there for that.
I also checked Amazon and the DVD release is set for: August 19th.
So a few months wait, but still, we can pre-order it and try to wait patiently. ;)
Brown Eyes:
Hi M!!
Great to see this thread revived! 8)
And, that's some really, really awesome news!! Yeehaw.
I can't wait to see Affinity!
Lumière:
The thread is certainly going to stay revived, I hope! ;)
I can't wait to see the movie either!
I was pleased to read in the review that the movie stayed close to Sarah W's book.
Dang, August 19th for a Dvd release date is kinda far, isn't it?
I'll pre-order it this weekend anyway! 8)
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