Suppose the advent of cinema were a century earlier, many great films made between 1830 & 1900 were the products of Romanticism and Post-romanticism, what would those films look like?
Could you name some films actually made in the 20th and 21st century that aesthetically illustrate the hypothetical cinema of the Romantic and Post-romantic era?
Lincoln (2012) - follows Lincoln in the last few years of his life.. exceptional
Mr Turner (2014) - similarly follows a genius artist in his latter years
Eadweard (2015) - artist turned erotic photographer before 1900 ..
Also..
Elizabeth Gaskell's novels/tv series -
Wives & Daughters (1999) - the struggle of gentlewomen to get a good husband
North & South (2004) - a respected Chaplain and his family fall on hard times
Cranford (2007) - a quiet community witnesses the changing of an era