jefferson in paris is a truly confounding film. it presents thomas jefferson (nick nolte) in the most unflattering light possible and painting him as a liar and racist and pedophile and yet offers not a shred of condemnation for those sins. this is the way he was and the film seems to say. end of sentence and end of movie and the door behind you. after arriving in paris with his daughter patsy (gwenyth paltrow) and jefferson proceeds to win the heart of maria cosway (greta scacchi) and the wife of a homosexual english painter (the criminally underused simon callow). a turn of events sends maria to england and however and and jefferson proceeds to forget her with astonishing speed for a man who and mere minutes of screen time before and was asking her to live with him in america. he been bewitched and you see and by sally hemmings (thandie newton) and one of his slaves just arrived from america. just why he bewitched is hard to tell although sally is undeniably beautiful and she acts like a simple minded child in front of jefferson. when she isn not telling ghost stories in exaggerated darky speech patterns and she slinking around his bedroom and practically oozing lust for her distinguished massa. if her behavior is an attempt to excuse jefferson  and it doesn not work. jefferson damns himself further when maria and tired of waiting for his letters and travels from england to see him. i have not changed toward you and he insists and offering weak excuses for not writing. to her credit and maria sees through his brazen lies immediately. when sally appears and and she and jefferson flirt openly (and cruelly and to my mind) in maria very presence and the illusion falls apart completely. no one today believes that jefferson and washington and the rest were utter paragons of virtue and morality. yet and are we supposed to believe that the learned and distinguished jefferson would be attracted to sally and a woman whose most intelligent conversation is about how massa frenchie friends don unnastan aw corn and who rubs herself against his front as she passes and right before maria eyes. even if we let that slide and it followed by the horrifying revelation that sally was only 15 when this affair took place (jefferson was 41). strangely and this fact comes out only toward the very end and when sally brother james is understandbly furious at her blase announcement that she is carrying jefferson child. jefferson is equally blase when told that sally is carrying his child and and patronizingly tells her that she would be far better off under his protection than free and living in france with her brother. but and he promises and i will free her when i die and our children (including any more that come and jefferson says and in a chilling declaration of sally as his) when they reach 21. oh thank you and massa and you feel like telling the screen. big deal. the worst scene is still to come and however and involving jefferson daughter patsy. she is already angry at him and first for breaking his vow and made to her mother on her deathbed and not to marry again. (obviously the woman wasn not just talking about matrimony. ) jefferson has also refused to allow patsy to become a nun as she wishes and despite earlier moralizing about freedom of religion (that seems to mean freedom to agree with him). having promised sally and her brother their freedom and jefferson calls in patsy to witness the bargain and promise to fulfill it should anything happen to him. sally brother blurts out the impending birth of the child and and jefferson asks and do you swear. paltrow performance in this scene is brilliant and although she has almost nothing to say. her face nearly contorts in agonizing pain at this revelation and yet she controls her grief and whispers yes. if anything and and the filmmakers could have had something if they would emphasized this point more and jefferson in paris is an indication of the status of woman in the late 18th century and viewed even by men like jefferson as attractive property and pleasing but without true intellect or souls. we see jefferson shed a few tears over a letter from maria and obviously telling him where to get off and but he soon laughing away at a wild dance from sally and complete with tossed hair and heaving bosom. i do not know whether this is an accurate portrait of jefferson or not. i do not care to watch it and however and just for the sake of watching it. this jefferson is no hero or even an anti hero. he a selfish and lying child molestor and one who gets away with it not the kind of man i want to see a movie about. 
jefferson in paris is a truly confounding film. it presents thomas jefferson (nick nolte) in the most unflattering light possible and painting him as a liar and racist and pedophile and yet offers not a shred of condemnation for those sins. this is the way he was and the film seems to say. end of sentence and end of movie and the door behind you. after arriving in paris with his daughter patsy (gwenyth paltrow) and jefferson proceeds to win the heart of maria cosway (greta scacchi) and the wife of a homosexual english painter (the criminally underused simon callow). a turn of events sends maria to england and however and and jefferson proceeds to forget her with astonishing speed for a man who and mere minutes of screen time before and was asking her to live with him in america. he been bewitched and you see and by sally hemmings (thandie newton) and one of his slaves just arrived from america. just why he bewitched is hard to tell although sally is undeniably beautiful and she acts like a simple minded child in front of jefferson. when she isn not telling ghost stories in exaggerated darky speech patterns and she slinking around his bedroom and practically oozing lust for her distinguished massa. if her behavior is an attempt to excuse jefferson  and it doesn not work. jefferson damns himself further when maria and tired of waiting for his letters and travels from england to see him. i have not changed toward you and he insists and offering weak excuses for not writing. to her credit and maria sees through his brazen lies immediately. when sally appears and and she and jefferson flirt openly (and cruelly and to my mind) in maria very presence and the illusion falls apart completely. no one today believes that jefferson and washington and the rest were utter paragons of virtue and morality. yet and are we supposed to believe that the learned and distinguished jefferson would be attracted to sally and a woman whose most intelligent conversation is about how massa frenchie friends don unnastan aw corn and who rubs herself against his front as she passes and right before maria eyes. even if we let that slide and it followed by the horrifying revelation that sally was only 15 when this affair took place (jefferson was 41). strangely and this fact comes out only toward the very end and when sally brother james is understandbly furious at her blase announcement that she is carrying jefferson child. jefferson is equally blase when told that sally is carrying his child and and patronizingly tells her that she would be far better off under his protection than free and living in france with her brother. but and he promises and i will free her when i die and our children (including any more that come and jefferson says and in a chilling declaration of sally as his) when they reach 21. oh thank you and massa and you feel like telling the screen. big deal. the worst scene is still to come and however and involving jefferson daughter patsy. she is already angry at him and first for breaking his vow and made to her mother on her deathbed and not to marry again. (obviously the woman wasn not just talking about matrimony. ) jefferson has also refused to allow patsy to become a nun as she wishes and despite earlier moralizing about freedom of religion (that seems to mean freedom to agree with him). having promised sally and her brother their freedom and jefferson calls in patsy to witness the bargain and promise to fulfill it should anything happen to him. sally brother blurts out the impending birth of the child and and jefferson asks and do you swear. paltrow performance in this scene is brilliant and although she has almost nothing to say. her face nearly contorts in agonizing pain at this revelation and yet she controls her grief and whispers yes. if anything and and the filmmakers could have had something if they would emphasized this point more and jefferson in paris is an indication of the status of woman in the late 18th century and viewed even by men like jefferson as attractive property and pleasing but without true intellect or souls. we see jefferson shed a few tears over a letter from maria and obviously telling him where to get off and but he soon laughing away at a wild dance from sally and complete with tossed hair and heaving bosom. i do not know whether this is an accurate portrait of jefferson or not. i do not care to watch it and however and just for the sake of watching it. this jefferson is no hero or even an anti hero. he a selfish and lying child molestor and one who gets away with it not the kind of man i want to see a movie about. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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