The Serpent's Kiss
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome comes to a remote English estate where Thomas Smithers lives with his wife, Juliana. Smithers is determined to leave as his legacy a fabulous garden, to be carved from a wild patch of land beside his home. Chrome receives written instructions from his unseen master via a secretary, and the master is Juliana's cousin, Fitzmaurice, who had romance with Juliana when they were young and plans to make Thomas bankrupt via setting up extravagant garden and to make Juliana come back to him.
Direction Philippe Rousselot
Cast Ewan McGregor · Greta Scacchi · Pete Postlethwaite · Richard E. Grant · Carmen Chaplin
Soundtrack Goran Bregovic
Screenplay Tim Rose Price
Cinematography Jean-François Robin
Original title The Serpent's Kiss
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