The Wings of the Dove

Based on the 1902 Henry James novel of the same name, The Wings of the Dove is set in 1910. After the death of her mother, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter) has become a ward of her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who is paying her dissipated father (Michael Gambon) to stay out of Kate's ...more

Iain Softley's adaptation of James' novel of love, money, and deception may have simplified the master's work, but its essence is left intact. Helena Bonham Carter stars as the scheming Kate Croy, who hopes to land impoverished journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache) and the fortune of another woman. James' common theme of European experience and American innocence, often played out as the exploitation of the latter by the former, blends the fortune-hunting motif of the tragic Portrait of a ...more