Firelight (1997)

Directed by

William Nicholson

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom, France, United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman agrees to bear a child for an English landowner to pay off her father's debts. Seven years later she becomes the governess of a girl on a remote estate and discovers the girl's father is the same man.

melancholicromanticrestrainedbroodingperiod-pieceslow-burnatmosphericbittersweet

What happens

Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the woman gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father is the anonymous landowner. Filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, the film premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 September 1997. Firelight was Nicholson's first film as a director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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