Easy Virtue – Eine unmoralische Ehefrau (2008)

Easy Virtue – Eine unmoralische Ehefrau: Directed by Stephan Elliott. With Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth. A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future – blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

“Easy Virtue is a very liberal adaptation of Noel Cowardu0026#39;s play. Director Stephan Elliot (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) has tried to make the film more contemporary and very distinct from the Merchant-Ivory school of film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is set in the roaring twenties where John (Ben Barnes) from an aristocratic English family marries Larita (Jessica Biel), an American race driver, after a whirlwind romance in France. However his mother Veronica (Kristin Scott Thomas) is none too pleased while Johnu0026#39;s father Jim (colin Firth) finds a soul mate in Larita. These relationships, including those with Johnu0026#39;s sisters, make for a very intriguing and entertaining hour and a half, The acting, as could be expected from such a cast is uniformly excellent with perhaps Jessica Biel standing out a little more.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne of Stephan Elliotu0026#39;s nice touches is an anachronistic use of such songs as Car Wash and Sex Bomb, done in a very twenties style. The addition of a hilarious u0026quot;dog sceneu0026quot; is another nice touch. Fans of Noel Coward (and even Merchant-Ivory) wonu0026#39;t be disappointed.”