Storyline
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Directors
Cast
Zach Galifianakis, Christoph Waltz, Tom Hollander, Kevin McKidd, Judi Dench, Holliday Grainger, Dane DeHaan, Anastasia Hille, Sebastian Armesto, Matthew Morrison, David Harewood, Michael Nardone, Joanna Scanlan, Douglas Hodge, Michael Smiley, Jack O'Connell, Cara Delevingne, Alicia Vikander, Johnny Vegas, Daisy Lowe, Cressida Bonas, Patsy Ferran
Trailer
Reviews
70
NPR
Stoppard, 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.
67
As 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.
63
Tulip Fever is a film a-swirl in what-ifs and what-could-have-beens. The years-long anticipation of its arrival has only heightened the stakes for what is – and what maybe always would have been – a harmless historical romp through some flowers.
40
It arrives not as a lusty tale in full bloom but as a tastefully arranged still life, in search of an animating spark.
40
It’s neither a secret masterpiece nor a laughable disaster.
