Firelight

Firelight

Passion has no limits.

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Release Date

5/27/1998

Runtime

103 mins

Overview

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A woman returns as governess to the daughter she was forced to surrender years before, trapped between love and secrecy in a Victorian household. Quiet longing simmers beneath propriety as past and present collide.

Mood

BittersweetMelancholicRomanticTense

Themes

LoveFamilyIdentityRedemption

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Linear

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Sexual content

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