Davies’s long-awaited adaptation of one of author Edith Wharton’s most celebrated novels, The House of Mirth traces the rise and fall of the alluring socialite Lily Bart (Anderson) during the Gilded Age of American high society. An independent-minded young woman in an era that brooked no rebellion against its rules, Lily struggles with the need for a "good marriage" and against the passion she feels for a young but penniless suitor, Lawrence Selden (Stoltz). Although the story is set in the palatial "cottages" of turn-of-the-century upstate New York, the film was shot with stunning results in Scotland. Appropriately, its world premiere was held last month at the Edinburgh Film Festival.