Cold Mountain (2003)
Directed by Anthony Minghella
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain (2003; by way of Charles Frazier’s 1997 novel), starring Jude Law…
The cinematographer John Seale, an Oscar-winner for "The English Patient" who has also worked on "Witness," "Cold Mountain" and the first Harry Potter film, among many others, lovingly embraces the gold hues of the vast desert.
It's how we get romances — Jezebel, Gone With the Wind, Cold Mountain — that use the antebellum South and Civil War as backdrops but feature either the most entertaining black slaves or almost no slaves at all.
When Robert Duvall totters on as ?The Old Man? (a guest-star survivor, akin to the guest-star hillbillies in Cold Mountain), we think they might adopt him as a surrogate Gramps.
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…fully worked out than many other prestige literary adaptations, like Cold Mountain.
Not content to snuff out the coincidences there, the Jaffes pair him up with a troubled fireman (Mark Walhberg, Three Kings, Boogie Nights ) and hone in on Alberts adversarial relationship with his nemesis and ostensible partner in eco-friendliness Brad Stand (Jude Law, Cold Mountain ).