
Arden de Faversham
★★★★★
French / 136 MIN. / 1960
The Genres
The Synopsis
Faversham's Arden, the first tragedy to be about ordinary people, is both a realistic, social painting of 16th-century England and a psychological portrait. Alice and her lover Mosbie, with whom she has a complex and passionate relationship, decide to murder her husband Thomas Arden, but their plan repeatedly fails.