Jefferson in Paris (1995)

Directed by

James Ivory

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Thomas Jefferson lives in Paris as the American ambassador. The film shows his friendships, his romance with an artist, and his relationship with an enslaved woman who is also his property.

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What happens

Jefferson in Paris is a 1995 historical drama film, directed by James Ivory, and previously entitled Head and Heart. The screenplay, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is a semi-fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France before his presidency and of his relationships with Italian-English artist Maria Cosway and his slave, Sally Hemings. The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful, grossing $5.9 million on a $14 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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