The Scarlet Letter

In Roland Joffé’s adaptation of “The Scarlet Letter,” the film reimagines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, where a woman named Hester Prynne is shunned by her community after bearing an illegitimate child. As she struggles with her public shaming and the mystery surrounding the identity of her child’s father, themes of love, sin, and redemption unfold against a backdrop of strict societal norms.