Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) is showing December 17, 2017 - January 16, 2018 on Mubi in the United Kingdom. Unrequited love is tragic, like an empty party; unconsummated love is worse—it's senseless like a sinkhole or a flat soufflé. That two people should love each other equally and still not be happy or together is the problem Martin Scorsese worries over in his 1993 adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.The film opens in an opera—a nod to Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), a swoony film that also takes a bleak look at high society. But while that film has flourishes and cultivates dizziness, The Age of Innocence is about a love that cannot be expressed, and the pained, stately movements of non-lovers that must navigate a life apart. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Newland Archer, a...
- 12/18/2017
- MUBI
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