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The Wings of the Dove
Drama, Romance
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate sumptuous period romances built around moral compromise, emotional restraint, and impossible choices.
- Tone
- romantic, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- forbidden love, class privilege, inheritance, manipulation, sacrifice
- Setting
- early twentieth century, British high society and romantic Venice
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