In a world saturated with obscenity, which makes everyone to be more common and vulgar than its neighbor, a movie like The Age of Innocence good! Not that obscenity is absent from the masterpiece Martin Scorsese, who can also hide behind the gloves fresh butter and top hat, but staging the pretty successful feat to put themselves in unison with the wonderfully sophisticated prose of Edith Wharton (whose echoes reach us through the voice off Joanne Woodward). Disdaining the academic who had stifled the film, Scorsese refuses to fix his camera in endless stills. It multiplies the movement virtuosi (dives over the table of Van der Luyden, fades on the letters of apology, which came from Newton to a ball given by Julius Beaufort ) Plans and uses very short during the presentation of Ellen Van der Luyden in as if to signify his great freedom in a New York aristocracy as corseted as the Old World. Virtuoso, but Scorsese is incomparably elegant when it comes to expressing feelings of the evolution towards Newton Archer Ellen Olenska. Here, everything is played in the way of filming the hands of the protagonists. First to Met a kiss hand marking a remote curiosity embarrassed then shook hands before a more engaging fleeting but comforting embrace of wrist. And then there is that wonderful moment where Newton has to give Ellen her divorce, then his freedom. Imperceptibly, the camera gets rid of the depth of field (all these hangings, these trinkets that might act as a screen between the viewer and the truth of feelings) to better focus on the two sides of love burning the for each other socially but forced to hide their desires.
