Paul Bradley

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund - his brother, widow, and younger mistress - so he can get authorization to write the biography.

An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.

After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

日系の英国作家K・イシグロのブッカー賞受賞作を基に、侯爵に忠実な執事として徹底的にストイックに生きた一人の男の悲哀を描いた物語。恋を知らぬ彼は安っぽい恋愛小説に慰めを得、それを女中頭に見つかり頬を赤らめる。互いに愛情を感じながらもその感情を抑えこんでしまう彼に、彼女は待ちきれず、彼の友人と結婚し町を去る。戦後、侯爵がこの世を去り、ようやく自由を感じた彼は女中頭を訪ねるのだが……。

旅行中に親しくなった上流階級の二つの家。両家から恋におちたヘレンとポールだったが、別れることに。だがやがて両家は隣同士として住むことに……。閉塞的な英階級社会に生きる人々の愛憎。

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

英・ケンブリッジ大学に入学した中産階級のモーリスは、同性愛を肯定する上流階級のクライヴに出会う。モーリスはクライヴに影響を受けつつ、しだいに純粋な愛に目覚めていく……。ヒュー・グラント、ジェイムズ・ウィルビー主演の名作。

まだ封建的であった20世紀初頭のイギリス。良家の令嬢ルーシーは、旅先のフィレンツェで労働者階級の青年と出会う。情熱的な彼にルーシーは強く惹かれるが……。格調高い様式美の中で綴られるラヴ・ロマンス。

19世紀アメリカ、ボストン。女性の権利を主張する美しい女性が恋に落ちて……。ヘンリー・ジェイムズの原作を映画化。主義と恋愛感情の間で苦悩する主人公をヴァネッサ・レッドグレーヴが好演。