![]() Her novel These Foolish Things was adapted for the screen as the feelgood The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Tulip Fever is based on the best-selling 1999 novel written by Deborah Moggach. Maria’s own pregnancy plays a key role in the deception, as does the volatile tulip market. Caught up in the plot is Sophia’s loyal maid Maria (Holliday Grainger), who is in love with local fishmonger Will (Jack O’Connell). Van Loos then hatches a desperate plot to allow Sophia to escape from her loveless marriage and run away with him. Van Loos and Sophia embark on a torrid affair behind Cornelis’ back. But when Sophia seems unable to fall pregnant, Cornelis commissions impoverished artist Jan Van Loos (Dane DeHaan) to paint a portrait of the couple. All Cornelis wants is a son and heir to carry on the family legacy. The abbess arranges for Sophia to be married off to the widowed Cornelis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz), a wealthy spice merchant. The pipe-smoking abbess (Judi Dench) seems to have a key role in the growth of the tulip market, where fortunes can be made or lost. Sophia (Alicia Vikander) has been raised in an orphanage. Playing out against this backdrop of an economic bubble is a more formulaic story of romance, deception and betrayal. Tulips were highly prized and a source of great wealth. Tulip Fever is a melodramatic bodice-ripper set in Amsterdam in 1634.
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