A modern retelling of a classic play by Gotthold Lessing, director Henrik Pfeifer’s Emilia (2005) accomplishes a disjunction between new and old by making his twenty-first-century characters speak the original lines of eighteenth-century dialogue. A scathing attack on nobility, the plot follows a virtuous, affluent woman whose beauty leads to her downfall. A nobleman’s lust causes the woman to be disgraced, thereby forcing … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review