Movie #310 "Edge of Love" was not a movie I would recommend to lots of people. It wasn't sure what story it wanted to tell, trying to go back and forth among 4 people === Dylan Thomas's wife, girlfriend, Thomas himself and William, who ends up marrying Keira (the girlfriend). It is only a couple of years of Dylan's life, when he was in Wales writing. The environments are gorgeous, the women are gorgeous, Dylan himself is nice looking, but it gets a bit weird with the foursome --- everyone is friends but jealous of everyone else. So it seems so high schoolish --- I wanted to say, Hey you are adults --- sort it out and make it right! The one redeeming factor that it holds on to is the fact that the women really liked each other and were friends, in the true sense of the word. And the last moment when they connect was a good one, and one that makes the ending more satisfactory than the rest of the movie.
DONNA's rating: 3.0 stars
Average of 134,960 ratings: 2.9 stars
The Edge of Love
2008R111 minutes
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is torn between his free-spirited childhood sweetheart, Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley), and his fiery wife, Caitlin MacNamara (Sienna Miller), in this lush, fact-based period drama. Despite their rivalry over Dylan, Vera and Caitlin develop an unlikely friendship, but jealousy enters the picture when Vera marries William Killick (Cillian Murphy) and the threesome becomes a quartet.
Cast:Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Ben Batt, Geoffrey Beevers, Rachel Bell, Nick Stringer, Lisa Stansfield, Joel Dommett, Anne Lambton, Richard Clifford, Alastair MackenzieDirector:John MayburyGenres:Drama, Romantic Dramas, 20th Century Period Pieces, Period Pieces, Dramas Based on Real Life, United Kingdom, Foreign Regions, Blu-rayThis movie is:Romantic, Dark, CerebralFormat:DVD, Blu-ray and streaming (HD available)
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