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Set in a time when
a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most people sterile, Volker Schlondorff's
film offers a disturbing view of a society under martial law in which fertile
women are captured and made into handmaids to bear children for rich and
infertile matrons.
The film unfolds from the eyes of newly converted handmaid Kate (Natasha
Richardson). She is trapped in this mysogynistic society which both deifies
these fertile women as prized possessions and condemns them as whores. Throughout
the story Kate has to cope with the jealousy of the woman she serves (Faye
Dunaway), the advances of her sleazy military husband (the Commander, played
by Robert Duvall), and the loss of her daughter, who has been shuttled off
to a similarly aristocratic setting. She also falls in love with one of
the Commander's security guards (Aidan Quinn), who sympathizes with her
plight and potentially offers her a way out.
The film, which works from Harold Pinter's screenplay adaption of Margaret
Atwood's novel, features strong performances from those mentioned as well
as Elizabeth McGovern and Victoria Tennant. |
GNPD
8020
Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack
The Handmaid's Tale
Music by
Ryuichi Sakamoto
$12.95
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1.
(Suite 1)
Overture / Snow / Prison Camp / On the Bus / Old Hundredth (Praise
God from Who) (20:50)
2. (Suite 2)
Love in Nick's Room / Amazing Grace / My Daughter Is Alive / Car
Bomb / Travesty (20:28)
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