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Movie
Cousin Bette
Synopsis
Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of the 1840s, spinster Bette Fisher (Jessica Lange) steps in to "take care" of her relatives after a decline in the Hulot family fortunes, mainly due to wastrel Hector Hulot (Hugh Laurie). After penniless sculptor Wenceslas Steinbach (Aden Young) marries Hector's daughter, Hortense (Kelly Macdonald), Bette schemes and plots, drawing Hector's mistress, music-hall star Jenny Cadine (Elisabeth Shue), into her web by arranging for wealthy Cesar Crevel (Bob Hoskins) to become Jenny's benefactor. Filmed at locations in and around Bordeaux. Shown at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival.
Cast
- Jessica Lange
- Elisabeth Shue
- Bob Hoskins
- Hugh Laurie
- Laura Fraser
- Toby Stephens
- Kelly Macdonald
- Janie Hargreaves
- Aden Young
- Geraldine Chaplin
- Jefferson Mays
- John Benfield
- Paul Bandey
- Gillian Martell
- John Sessions
- Henrik Wagner
- John Quentin
- Tim Barlow
- Heathcote Williams
- Philip Jackson
- Toby Jones
- Kenneth Jay
- Simon McBurney
- Geoffrey Carey
- Dermot Keaney
- Neris Thomas
- Lynn Siefert
- Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
- Bertrand Clercq-Roques
- Rob Scheidlinger
- Karen Margiotta
- Llora Reich
- Didier Naert
- Jane Gibson
- Philippe Guez
- Susan Tarr
- Mary Margiotta
- Andrzej Sekula
- Tariq Anwar
- Liora Reich
- Gabriella Pescucci
- Graham Longhurst
- Nathalie Charon
- Honore de Balzac
- Richard Bridgland
- Jenny Shircore
- Barry Alexander Brown