She’s quite an important figure in the film but didn’t feature in the book (or rather, I can’t remember such a character at all). Case in point, Judi Dench’s superfluous character. Despite the fact that the screenplay was written by Deborah Moggach and Tom Stoppard, the beginning of the film is not how the book begins and there are aspects – and characters – which were not in the book at all. I think I would have loved this film more had I not read the book first, for I couldn’t stop comparing the two throughout. 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. After her husband commissions a portrait, she begins a passionate affair with the painter Jan Van Loos (Dane DeHaan), a struggling young artist. In 17th Century Amsterdam, an orphaned girl Sophia (Alicia Vikander) is forcibly married to a rich and powerful merchant Cornelis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz) – an unhappy “arrangement” that saves her from poverty. Directed by Justin Chadwick, the film stars Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Christoph Waltz, Holliday Grainger, and Judi Dench. Tulip Fever is a 2017 film and based on Deborah Moggach’s book of the same name.
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