Firelight (1997) on Netflix
Elisabeth Laurier takes money from an unnamed landowner to settle her father's debts and bears his child. Seven years afterward she becomes governess to a young girl living on a Sussex estate.
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Plot summary
Elisabeth Laurier, a Swiss governess, agrees to bear a child for an unnamed English landowner who will pay off her father's debts. They meet over three nights at a hotel on the coast; both had wished to stay detached, yet a passion grows between them by firelight. Elisabeth bears a daughter and hands the baby to the father, as arranged. She never forgets her child, and in the years apart she fills a journal with watercolor flowers, one page for each birthday. Seven years on, a household on a remote Sussex estate engages her to look after its young girl.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Firelight (1997)
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- Cinematographer Nic Morris won three prizes for Firelight in 1997: the British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography, the San Sebastián International Film Festival Prize of the Jury for Best Cinematography, and a San Sebastián Golden Seashell Award.
- Firelight was Nicholson's first film as a director. It was filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, and premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 September 1997.
