Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson are mother and daughter in real life, here they play aunt and niece.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Joely Richardson were previously married in the TV Series The Tudors as King Henry VIII and his sixth/final wife Catherine Parr.
Julien Landais's feature directorial debut.
The second screen version of a Henry James novel to star Vanessa Redgrave, the first being Les Bostoniennes (1984) (in which Redgrave's daughter: "Aspern Papers" co-female lead Joely Richardson, was an extra).
The first of two screen versions of a Henry James novel to star Joely Richardson, the second being The Turning (2020).