“A Green and Pleasant Land” film series: Tess

(1980, 172 min., rated PG)

For director Roman Polanski, as for Thomas Hardy’s original novel, the beauty of rural Britain is an ironic counterpoint to the common tragedies enacted there. Nastassja Kinski plays the ravished and ravishing title character, sad and lovely as the land itself.

Marvel at the beauty of the British landscape so well represented by Constable, Turner, Gainsborough, and other Manton Collection masterpieces during the "A Green and Pleasant Land: Literature and Landscape in Pastoral Britain" film series.