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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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