The Portrait of a Lady (cert. 15)

synopsis

Jane Champion, director of The Piano brings her strong, sensual visions to Henry James' great novel of freedom and seduction. Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer, a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. However her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of their cunning friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich).