The Edge of Love (2008)

Regista:

John Maybury

Sceneggiatore:

Sharman Macdonald (written by)

Data di uscita:

20 giugno 2008 (UK)

Genere:

Biografia | Drama | Romance | War

Slogan:

Wife. Husband. Friend. Lover.

Plot:

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Plot Keywords:

Female Lead | War Hero | WWII | South Wales | Unrequited Love

Recensioni degli utenti:

This film has moments of cinematic beauty.

Cast

Simon Armstrong	...	Wilfred Hosgood
Ben Batt	...	Sergeant
Geoffrey Beevers	...	Registrar
Rachel Bell	...	Midwife
Paul Brooke	...	Mr. Justice Singleton
Huw Ceredig	...	John Patrick
Richard Clifford	...	Alistair Graham
Richard Dillane	...	Lt Col David Talbot Rice
Joel Dommett	...	Train Soldier
Rachel Essex	...	Mel
Craig Gallivan	...	Sailor Beating Dylan
Callum Godfrey	...	Boy on Train
Karl Johnson	...	Dai Fred
Simon Kassianides	...	Partisan
Keira Knightley	...	Vera Phillips
Anne Lambton	...	Anita Shenkin
Raymond Llewellyn	...	Dewi Ianthe
Alastair Mackenzie	...	Anthony Devas
Neville Malcolm	...	Big Joe
Graham 'Suggs' McPherson	...	The Crooner
Sienna Miller	...	Caitlin MacNamara
Cillian Murphy	...	William Killick
Anthony O'Donnell	...	Jack Lloyd
Kent Olesen	...	Soldier
Jonathan Phillips	...	John Eldridge
Kyle Redmond-Jones	...	Boy Soldier
Matthew Rhys	...	Dylan Thomas
Jenny Runacre	...	Woman in Yellow Dress
Camilla Rutherford	...	Nicolette
Lisa Stansfield	...	Ruth Williams
Nick Stringer	...	PC Williams

Alias:

The Best Time of Our Lives (UK) (working title)

Durata:

110 min

Nazionalità:

UK

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Dolby Digital

Divieti:

UK:15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Australia:M | Ireland:15A

Luoghi delle riprese:

Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK

Company:

BBC Films

Curiosità:

The screenwriter is Keira Knightley's mother.

Movie Connections:

Citato in "Uned 5: (2008-06-20)" (2008)

Colonna sonora:

Blue Tahitian Moon

This film has moments of cinematic beauty.

Welsh poet Dylan Thomas excused from serving in active duty is doing his bit for the war effort producing bits of prose for some propaganda branch of government in Whitehall.

Thomas is portrayed as a freethinker believing in free love married to a woman with an equally demanding artistic streak and likewise with a penchant for extramarital romance. Thomas writing and reciting his poetry in systematic domestic mayhem throughout becomes somewhat priggish towards the end, resting somewhat uncomfortably on his society connections and pulling rank on a war veteran, who had shot up his house, and who was incidentally married to the woman he had been having an affair with.

The real story of this film is the love of two women, one (Keira Knightley) whose first love was Thomas (Matthew Rhys), the second (Sienna Miller) who is Thomas's wife. At times it reminds of The Singing Detective, as in very good television with slightly sinister overtones laid on top of scenes of surreal camp absurdity.