![]() But then Maria’s boyfriend gets her pregnant and disappears, leaving her staring down the barrel of social ruin. When Sophia meets Jan, the two of them quickly begin an affair, with a little help from Maria (Holliday Granger), Sophia’s servant and confidante. After three years of marriage, Sophia has not produced a child and Cornelis is beginning to talk about divorcing her (which he could have, although realistically Dutch religious authorities only granted divorce in cases of adultery). ![]() Sophia is Cornelis’ second wife, his first wife having died in childbirth along with the baby. You’ve probably seen a dozen films with that Spring-Winter love triangle. The set-up is, as I’ve already said, pretty familiar. Spoiler Alert : If you’re thinking about watching this film, you might want to stop reading, since I give away a couple of big plot points. What sets the film apart from every other iteration of this film are two things, the attempted resolution to the adultery and the fact that history’s first economic bubble, Tulip Mania, was happening at the time. As usually happens when Hollywood presents May-December marriages, Sophia has an affair with a man closer to her own age, Jan (Dane DeHaan), a painter that Cornelis has hired to do a portrait of the two of them. It tells the story of Sophia (Alicia Vikander), a young orphan married to Cornelis (Cristoph Waltz), a wealthy merchant. ![]() ![]() Justin Chadwick, based on the novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach) is a modest little movie set in Amsterdam (I think) in 1637. ![]()
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