Director:
Nicholas RentonGuión:
Andrew DaviesMúsica:
John E. KeaneReparto:
Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander, Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton, Barbara Flynn, Iain Glen, Ian Carmichael (más)Episodios(4)
Sinopsis(1)
Después de años como viudo, Mr. Gibson, doctor de un pueblo de la campiña inglesa llamado Hollingford, decide casarse de nuevo, algo para lo que su ino-cente hija Molly no está preparada. La vida de ésta cambia radicalmente por la llegada de su manipuladora madrastra, que la involucrará en un mundo de traición y secretos familiares, y de su bella hermanastra, Cynthia. A pesar de las diferencias entre ambas jóvenes, pronto se con-vierten en muy buenas amigas, pero la fuerza de su amistad pronto se pone a prueba cuando ambas se convierten en rivales en el amor… y cuando un peligroso secreto emerge del pasado de Cynthia con serias consecuencias para ambas. (Llamentol)
(más)Reseñas (1)
"Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story" is the last novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, which was first published as a series in Cornhill Magazine (1864-1866). Gaskell was a pleasant "new" discovery for me in the literary scene of the first half of the 19th century, because from that time, it's always the same old Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. Gaskell is a generation younger, and she is also the author, among other things, of the first biography of Charlotte Brontë (to make it clearer). The BBC adapted three of Gaskell's novels as miniseries, and I definitely plan to watch them all. Wives and Daughters is indeed slightly drawn out, but the quality of the adaptation is clear, the period detail is more than satisfactory, and the acting is delightful at times. Francesca Annis (Lillie from the 1980s version of Partners in Crime) is downright epically slanderous, Penelope Wilton (Maggie Smith's companion from Downton Abbey) is exceptionally moving, and Rosamund Pike started here as a fresh-faced twenty-something. Anyone who enjoys occasionally spending time in the English countryside in the 1830s will be satisfied.
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