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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Tess is a 1979 film directed and co-written by Roman Polański.It is the most famous of the many screen adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The setting is Wessex in the late 1880s. John Durbeyfield is a dirt-poor "haggler" who discovers that he is actually a direct male descendant of the d'Urbervilles, a noble family with a lineage that dates back to the Norman Conquest.John, being both dirt-poor, lazy, and a drunkard, decides to capitalize on this. He sends his beautiful daughter Tess (Nastassja Kinski, in her Star-Making Role) to a richer branch of the d'Urberville family which lives in a grand mansion. It turns out that the rich d'Urbervilles aren't actually d'Urbervilles; their name is Stoke, and they bought the d'Urberville name and noble crest. The scion of the d'Urberville family, Alec, is superficially charming but is actually a lecherous rake. He rapes Tess, and she eventually flees the d'Urberville mansion. She finds work on a dairy farm, and meets Angel Clare (Peter Firth), who is kind and understanding and handsome to boot. They fall in love—but naturally, tragedy ensues.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Arcadia: Rural 19th century Englandnote actually France, since Polanski couldn't set foot in England as he'd be arrested as a fugitive child rapist, with rolling, verdant green meadows, teeming fields of wheat, and peasants harvesting said wheat. There's also a hint of End of an Age when, towards the end of the film, a steam-powered hay baler is shown, chugging and making noise and disturbing the peace of Arcadia.
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 Anguished Declaration of Love: Not Tess but Izz, another of the milk maids. After Angel asks if she is well she confesses that she could never be well without him. She then tells him that no one, including her, could love him more than Tess did.
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 Bourgeois Bohemian: Angel is sort of an early version of this. He comes from money, apparently Old Money, but he rails against the aristocracy and has notions of being a farmer. The second his notions are really challenged, when Tess makes her confession, he can't deal with it and dumps her. The movie further underlines this by showing that Angel keeps a copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital on his desk.
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