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The Edge of Love (2009)

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Reviews Counted:6

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Rotten:4

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.

Rated: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:20-06-2008

Synopsis: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives... Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun.

Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship -- and though bombs rain down on London, the trio indulge in the glory of being young, and alive. When Vera meets and marries handsome Officer William Killick (Cillian Murphy), Dylan resents his trio becoming a foursome -- and Caitlin notes it.

The collapse of their group is avoided when William gets sent away to war -- and the others move back to rural Wales. With Vera now heavily pregnant and missing a husband who never writes back, the battle between her heart and head becomes more intense. William's return instigates a confrontation that has long been brewing -- but the savagery of his attack on Dylan finally forces Vera to choose between the men in her life and the friend that she loves.

Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside. --© Official Site [More]

Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys

Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Ben Batt, Geoffrey Beevers, Paul Brooke

Director: John Maybury

Director: John Maybury
Screenwriter: Sharman MacDonald
Producer: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radclyffe
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Studio: Capitol Films

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It is an exasperatingly unfocused and underpowered movie that, like Churchill's famous themeless pudding, is unsure what it is supposed to be about.

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10/18/08
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending.

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06/20/08
Olly Richards
Olly Richards
Empire Magazine
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Booze and jealousy make a toxic cocktail, one that’s heavily imbibed with much self-lacerating gusto in the grim British drama The Edge of Love.

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03/20/09
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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The Edge of Love has, as they say, all the tools, all the elements that usually make for success. It ought to be coaxing superlatives from all and sundry, but instead it leaves a bitter, unsatisfying aftertaste that lingers in the mind.

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03/12/09
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama.

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06/19/08
Leslie Felperin
Leslie Felperin
Variety
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The film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind beyond their control.

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06/18/08
Ray Bennett
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