Leigh Lawson

Facebook

Twitter

Google+

StumbleUpon

Fark

Comment

Follow Leigh Lawson

Leigh Lawson

Leigh Lawson Quick Links

News Pictures Film RSS

Twiggy , Leigh Lawson - VIP preview of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2016 at Royal Academy of Arts on June 7 2016 in London - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 7th June 2016

Twiggy Lawson , Leigh Lawson - Red carpet arrivals for The Southbank Sky Arts Awards 2016 at The Savoy Hotel - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 5th June 2016

Leigh Lawson , Twiggy - 'Motown the Musical' west end premiere at the Shaftesbury Theatre - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 8th March 2016

Leigh Lawson , Twiggy - 'Motown the Musical' West end premiere at the Shaftesbury Theatre at Shaftesbury Theatre - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 8th March 2016

Twiggy and Leigh Lawson - The Chelsea Flower Show 2015 - London, United Kingdom - Monday 18th May 2015

Tess Review

By Christopher Null

Good

Hunkering down with any movie adaptation of a Thomas Hardy novel (Jude, The Claim) invariably means you're in for a long, depressing look at life. Tess stands as one of the longest and saddest of the lot -- this one offered up by Roman Polanski as one of a handful of adaptations of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, one of those famous high school assignments that you didn't get around to reading.

Tess Durbeyfield (Nastassja Kinski) is a naive English country girl sent to do good by her family. She's not two feet out of her cottage when she encounters the aristocratic Alec d'Urberville (Leigh Lawson). Legend has it the similarity in names is no coincidence -- the two families descended from the same royals centuries ago. Never mind the incest, though, here comes the lovin', and before you know it, Tess isn't just taking care of chickens at d'Urberville manor, she's pregnant to boot.

Continue reading: Tess Review