I had such HOPES for this film (I love Minnie Driver), but they just didn’t pan out! Driver plays a Jewish girl in mid-19th century England who conceals her identity in order to become a governess to a middle class family in the country, and develops interesting relationships with the son and father. The costumes are interesting, but totally inaccurate — lots of weird fetish-y leather (on a GOVERNESS?) etc.
The meat of the story is the fact that the governess does most of the creative work developing a photographic device, but the father takes all the credit. Both class- and sex-tyranny.