Ellen Olenska: "I think we should look at reality, not dreams.
Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
Ellen Olenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?
Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exist!"
Storyline
High society, 19th Century, New York.
Young Sawyer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska.
At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.
Scorsese's Ignored Masterpiece.
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
