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Desperate Remedies - This stylishly high camp melodrama from directors Stewart Main and Peter Wells won acclaim, after debuting at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In the imaginary 19th-century town of Hope, draper Dorothea Brooks (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is desperate to save her sister from the clutches of opium, sex and the dastardly Fraser.
Desperate Remedies. Search within full text. Get access. Cited by 2. Thomas Hardy. Edited by Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Online publication date:
DESPERATE REMEDIES. Directed by. Stewart Main, Peter Wells. New Zealand, 1993. Comedy. 93. Synopsis. Set in the mythical seaport of Hope sometime during the 19th ...
Desperate Remedies is a reminder of the tragic and barbarous measures that have often been inflicted on people in the name of curing mental disturbance. —Joanna Moncrieff, Literary Review. One of the more important contributions to the field…the book is a deft achievement of writing…. Scull has pulled off an impressive feat of tone ...
Desperate Remedies is a 1993 New Zealand drama film directed by Stewart Main and Peter Wells. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival . [1]
This stylishly high camp melodrama from directors Stewart Main and Peter Wells won acclaim, after debuting at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In the imaginary 19th-century town of Hope, draper Dorothea Brooks (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is desperate to save her sister from the clutches of opium, sex and the dastardly Fraser. She begs hunky migrant Lawrence Hayes to help; but complications ensue ...
Desperate Remedies. Thomas Hardy. Oxford University Press, 2003 - Fiction - 415 pages. Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man.
