the serpent's kiss

Director: philippe rousselot

Actor: ewan mcgregor,greta scacchi,pete postlethwaite,richard e. grant

Data Published: Thu May 15 1997

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Key Words: reference to andrew marvell,husband wife relationship,hampton court palace,nature,doctor

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120100/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent%27s_Kiss

Description: The Serpent's Kiss is a movie starring Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, and Pete Postlethwaite. Young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome comes to a remote English estate where Thomas Smithers lives with his wife, Juliana. Smithers...

Plot: 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. 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. 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. Her parents, thinking her mentally unstable, subject her to numerous "treatments" that prompt Chrome's compassion. As 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 decides to remain loyal to her husband, now bankrupt from his obsession with the garden project. Chrome, revealed as an imposter (the assistant to the actual Chrome), goes to the sea with Anna, where she throws away her book of poetry.