
In seventeenth century Amsterdam, an orphaned girl Sophia is forcibly married to a rich and powerful merchant Cornelis Sandvoort - an unhappy "arrangement" that saves her from poverty. After her husband commissions a portrait, she begins a passionate affair with the painter Jan Van Loos, a struggling young artist. Seeking to escape the merchant's ever-reaching grasp, the lovers risk everything and enter the frenzied tulip bulb market, with the hope that the right bulb will ma... (Full plot summary below)
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In seventeenth century Amsterdam, an orphaned girl Sophia is forcibly married to a rich and powerful merchant Cornelis Sandvoort - an unhappy "arrangement" that saves her from poverty. After her husband commissions a portrait, she begins a passionate affair with the painter Jan Van Loos, a struggling young artist. Seeking to escape the merchant's ever-reaching grasp, the lovers risk everything and enter the frenzied tulip bulb market, with the hope that the right bulb will make a fortune and buy their freedom.
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| TheWrapRobert AbeleDoes Tulip Fever feel like a precious bulb poorly nurtured? Primarily it comes across as something laboriously over-handled, and any flower so treated is bound to lose its luster. After waiting so long, the strongest fragrance on display is one of sweat and mediocrity. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekIn this chaotically assembled incarnation Moggach's tale of romantic intrigue set against the notorious seventeenth-century financial bubble generates little dramatic heat, let alone a cinematic fever. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Cliffordthere's more fever than tulips in this tale, its overstuffed seams spilling coherence. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerThe filmmakers might claim the sexy superficiality as their whole point; if so, it’s a thin one. Chadwick and Stoppard seem to be making a movie about the impulsivity of desire, but they never dig into those feelings beyond depicting them. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAs Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) piles on the coincidences and misdirections, the movie finally collapses under its own schematic weight, and wilts to the ground. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedWith so much to look at and a plot to digest as thick as Dutch cocoa, it is not without a few problems, but I found this astonishing movie so rich and satisfying that I liked it in spite of itself. It’s the kind of guilty pleasure that sometimes confuses, but never bores. Color it flawed but gorgeous. |
| Tolucan TimesTony MedleyThis had the makings of a brilliant screwball comedy but the filmmakers turned it into a serious drama. Not bad, but, to paraphrase Marlon Brando, it coulda been something; instead, it's this! |
| NPRBob MondelloStoppard, remember, wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love," which brought wit and romance to this same period. Tulip Fever is not in that film's league, but it's lush and boisterous and crammed with the sort of arts gossip and commerce trivia that go nicely with gilded frames and talk of tulip futures. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfThe cinematic equivalent of a waving white flag, finally surrendering to the judgment of curious filmgoers who've been waiting a long time for this dud. |
| indieWireKate ErblandLove makes people do crazy things, and as overwrought and silly as Tulip Fever is in both execution and aim, the film embodies that sentiment in an unexpectedly compelling manner. It’s unfortunate that it takes 107 minutes to get there, but a final twist offers the film’s sole play for emotional resonance. |