Willem is speculating in the tulip market, and is doing quite well and, expecting to be independently prosperous and able to marry Maria, he sells his business to another fishmonger. Meanwhile, Sophia's friend, the housemaid Maria, is in a courtship with the neighborhood fishmonger, Willem. She shows up at his door with the tulips, and they consummate their love. Jan sends a note to Sophia, asking her to send him a vase of tulips. Sophia agrees, but as soon as the young painter Jan arrives to paint the couple, he and Sophia fall in love. Cornelis believes this misfortune to have something to do with a mistake he made in the past, with his previous wife: she miscarried their first child and when Cornelis asked the doctor to save the second child over the wife, he feels that God punished him by taking both his wife and his child.Ĭornelis hires a painter so that he may be remembered as having a beautiful young wife, should he have no heir to continue his legacy. Three years later, Sophia is unhappy in the marriage, since Cornelis seems to be concerned only with conceiving an heir, to no avail thus far. A marriage proposal from the far-older spice merchant Cornelis enables her to leave, with the generous dowry allowing her sisters to emigrate to New Amsterdam, where they have an aunt awaiting them, their only surviving relative. The orphan Sophia is cared for in a convent in the Dutch Republic just before the 17th century tulip mania. This was also the last film to be theatrically released by The Weinstein Company, which filed for bankruptcy following a series of sexual assault cases against co-founder Harvey Weinstein. It received generally unfavourable reviews from critics and grossed $9 million worldwide against its $25 million budget.

The plot follows a 17th-century ' Tulip mania' painter in Amsterdam who falls in love with a married woman whose portrait he has been commissioned to paint.įilmed in the summer of 2014, Tulip Fever was delayed numerous times before finally being released in the United States on 1 September 2017. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Tom Hollander, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McKidd, Douglas Hodge, Joanna Scanlan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, and Christoph Waltz. Tulip Fever is a 2017 historical romantic drama film directed by Justin Chadwick and written by Deborah Moggach and Tom Stoppard, adapted from Moggach's 1999 novel of the same name.

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