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Release Date: 1997

Cast: Kevin Anderson, Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Diana Payan, Valerie Minifie, Emma Amos, Sally Dexter, Maggie McCarthy, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland, Wolf Kahler, Dominique Belcourt

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Romance Film, World Cinema, Costume Drama, Romantic Drama

Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. Written by William Nicholson, the film is about a governess who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the governess gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate, whose father is the anonymous landowner. Firelight was Nicholson's first and only film as a director. In 1838, Swiss governess... MORE

Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. Written by William Nicholson, the film is about a governess who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the governess gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate, whose father is the anonymous landowner. Firelight was Nicholson's first and only film as a director. In 1838, Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier (Sophie Marceau) agrees to bear a child for an anonymous Englishman. In return, the Englishman will pay all of her father's debts. They meet over three nights at a lonely island hotel. Despite their wish for detachment, they develop a deeply passionate connection during their lovemaking by firelight. Their feelings grow after they converse on the beach and at the hotel. Elisabeth gives birth to a girl, Louisa, nine months later. As agreed she gives the child away, but never forgets her. She begins to keep a journal of watercolor flowers and plants, adding a page for each holiday and LESS