TULIP FEVER

Director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) and co-screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) adapt Deborah Moggach’s novel about love and extramarital affairs in 17thcentury Amsterdam during the height of tulip mania. Alicia Vikander plays Sophia, a young woman who is married to a wealthy older man named Cornelis (Christoph Waltz). When Cornelis commissions a dashing young painter (Dane DeHaan) to create a portrait of his wife, artist and subject soon fall in love and make plans to run away together. Judi Dench also stars. Rated R. 107 minutes. Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)