Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Jude / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents in association with BBC Films a Revolution Films production ; screenplay, Hossein Amini ; producer, Andrew Eaton ; director, Michael Winterbottom.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Scorpion Releasing, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

region A

Summary:

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for learning. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to his beloved scholars. There, he meets and falls totally in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a thoroughly modern young woman, whose wit and beauty captivate him. When they join in an illicit union that flouts society's conventions, fate takes a tragic turn.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Subjects:

Cousins -- England -- Drama.

Education, Higher -- England -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama.

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.

Wessex (England) -- Drama.

Genre:

Historical films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.