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The Edge of Love (2009)

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Reviews Counted:53

Fresh:18

Rotten:35

Average Rating:5/10

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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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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
03/12/09
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Has about as much to do with Dylan Thomas as it does the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
03/12/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Even when Lindsay Lohan's not in a movie she can still screw it up.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
03/12/09
Geoff Berkshire
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

Director John Maybury showed a defter hand with the artist biopic in his 1998 Francis Bacon film, Love Is the Devil.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
03/12/09
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
L.A. Weekly

Edge doesn't aspire to be anything more than a juicy British wartime soap opera, but when it finds delicious pockets of whispered betrayal, artistic impotency, and cherry-lipped invitation, it adds up to a convincing sit.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
03/12/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

Striking performances from Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller fail to compensate for the film's lack of narrative clarity.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
03/11/09
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Dylan Thomas's life is represented here, but John Maybury's hollow romantic drama is more interested in his women than in his literary art.

Full Review Source: Courier Mail (Australia) | comment Comment
08/29/08
Des Partridge
Des Partridge
Courier Mail (Australia)

Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
08/29/08
Paul Byrnes
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald

Solid, if melodramatic...

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
08/29/08
Jim Schembri
Jim Schembri
The Age (Australia)

An intense and strangely beautiful film...

Full Review Source: The Australian | comment Comment
08/29/08
Evan Williams
Evan Williams
The Australian

The film's cinematic signature is made up of moody imagery that is still grounded in reality, but with poetic flourish. Angela Badalamenti's score is elegantly understated

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment 1 Comment
08/14/08
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

Love, war and poetry swirl together to form this cocktail of a film, in which fantasy and reality are the main, but conflicting ingredients

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
08/14/08
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment 1 Comment
06/18/08
Ray Bennett
Ray Bennett
Hollywood Reporter
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