Firelight
– Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson..
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
04 Sep 1998
English, French
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
William Nicholson
William Nicholson
Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
2 wins & 2 nominations.
Miramax Films