Vanity Fair (2004)

Reese Witherspoon leads this period drama nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice.

Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky (Witherspoon) is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?

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