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Movie
The Governess
Synopsis
London TV commercials director Sandra Goldbacher made her feature directorial debut with this early Victorian England drama filmed on the Isle of Arran. In London, Rosina Da Silva (Minnie Driver) is shaken by the murder of her father, a wealthy Jewish merchant. To deal with family debts, Rosina places a classified ad in a local newspaper and gets a job as a nanny with a gentile family in Scotland. Adopting the name Mary Blackchurch and posing as a gentile, she joins the dysfunctional Cavendish family, caring for young Clementina (Florence Hoath) and fending off the advances of teen Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Head of the household is philologist and inventor Charles Cavendish (Tom Wilkinson), and when she gives Charles an assist on his photographic experiments, an affair develops. The music score features Eastern percussion backing singer Ofra Haza. Shown at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival.
Cast
- Minnie Driver
- Tom Wilkinson
- Harriet Walter
- Florence Hoath
- Bruce Myers
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Emma Bird
- Arlene Cockburn
- Adam Levy
- Countess Koulinskyi
- Diana Brooks
- Raymond Brody
- Olga
- Cyril Shaps
- Kendal Cramer
- Ralph Riach
- Joe Bromley
- Stephen Robbins
- Veronica Brebner
- Danny Hambrook
- Caroline Harris
- Michelle Guish
- Sandra Goldbacher
- Chris Reynolds
- Ashley Rowe
- Philip Robinson
- Isabel Lorente
- Isabelle Lorente
- Sarah Greenwood
- Nick Powell
- Sally Hibbin