Her parents, thinking her mentally unstable, subject her to numerous "treatments" that prompt Chrome's compassion.Īs the garden grows increasingly complex and Smithers approaches bankruptcy, Fitzmaurice realizes that Chrome's affection for Anna makes him a liability he threatens to reveal some damaging information about Chrome and then decides to kill him, but his plan backfires and Fitzmaurice dies. Juliana, however, is attracted to Chrome and he in turn to the Smithers' daughter, Anna, who filters all experiences through a volume of Andrew Marvell's poems that she is never without. Smithers doesn't know that his wife's cousin Fitzmaurice (Grant) has already hired Chrome, with the goal of bankrupting Smithers and essentially acquiring Juliana, whom he loves. Thomas Smithers (Postlethwaite), who has made his fortune as an ironmonger and cannon-maker, hires the famous Meneer Chrome (McGregor) to create the most extravagant garden imaginable on his overgrown property.
To date, it is the only feature directed by Rousselot, an award-winning cinematographer. The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. The film also stars Greta Scacchi and Richard E.
Set in late-17th-century England, it tells the story of a Dutch garden architect, Meneer Chrome ( Ewan McGregor), who has been hired by a wealthy merchant ( Pete Postlethwaite) to create an extravagant garden. The Serpent's Kiss is a 1997 British romantic drama film directed by Philippe Rousselot.
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