This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
A man forces himself on his cousin
A woman becomes pregnant by her cousin.
A women's nipple is shown ifor a brief second to breast feed her child
A man and a woman make out and then roll around the floor they have sex offscreen
violence
A woman pushes a man off his horse and he bleeds from the back of the head
Although not graphic, a man forces himself on his young cousin
A woman slaps man aggressively
A man is killed offscreen but blood leaks from the roof from the upstairs floor
alcohol
A man is claimed to be an alcoholic
Some drinks are consumed but in a delicate fancy way
