Demon-battling Polish director Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979), a lavishly costumed period piece set in England but filmed in France, follows a classic recipe for tragedy. This adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a perennial college-lit favorite, starts with gullibility, innocence, and ambition; stirs in lies, artifice, and avarice; steams the mix in a cauldron of sexual predation; drizzles on … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review