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Synopsis

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Year2015
CountryUnited States
DirectorTodd Haynes
Cinematic Threads
I was looking at the way Scorsese used narration in The Age of Innocence as a way to clarify information and deepen the irony, but also the way the camera moves to reveal the hidden emotional architecture. And how the details of that world, the costumes, the manners, become part of the repression.
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