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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 37
Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 10
Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.
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The Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident in which Thomas found his home turned into a war zone when Phillips and Killick attacked the abode with a machine gun and a grenade. Sienna Miller assumes the role of Dylan's wife, Caitlin, and Keira
May 15, 2008 Wide
Jul 14, 2009
Capitol Films
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (39) | DVD (7)
The Edge of Love holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.
This may be Knightley's first truly mature performance. Too bad it arrives wrapped in doggerel.
For all its vivid evocation of its characters' tomorrow-we-die bonhomie, the film finally never quite convinces viewers of its central subject: the sisterly, almost sapphic bond between Vera and Caitlin.
The movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.
While Thomas fans will regret seeing their literary hero reduced to a generic drunk, even those awaiting the aforementioned bathtub scene will find it barely worth the effort.
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.
[Knightley & Miller] frolicking on the beach ... could easily be a couple of models from a Boden fashion shoot at play.
It's so hard, being a poet. ... Such is the wisdom of The Edge of Love, a movie unfortunately as banal as its tagline, 'The only thing more dangerous than war is love.'
...makes us wonder by the time it's over whether it was worth our trouble watching it. (Blu-ray Edition)
When it's over...we have to wonder why any of it mattered in the first place.
Maybury tackles the great Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love, a speculative investigation into a cloudy period of the poet and dramatist's personal life. [Blu-ray]
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Ah, the London Blitz. Bombs falling, buildings on fire, people dying all around. Good times, good times.
Unfortunately, like the murky visuals, the story is also muddled.
A bit too arty and concerned with quasi-historical detail to catch fire as a romance (doomed or otherwise), and too yawningly familiar in its major chord plotting to set sail as a honest character ensemble.
While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything.
The Edge of Love is literate and often lovely to look at, but unless you're requesting an off-key bohemian rhapsody, do not go gentle into that good theater.
Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.
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