Iris (2001)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 86 | Rotten: 23
A solidly constructed drama, Iris is greatly elevated by the strength of its four lead performances.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 5
A solidly constructed drama, Iris is greatly elevated by the strength of its four lead performances.
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Based on a pair of memoirs by her husband John Bayley, this biographical portrait of writer Iris Murdoch stars both Judi Dench and Kate Winslet as the philosophical author at different stages of her life. When the young Iris (Winslet) meets fellow student Bayley (Hugh Bonneville) at Oxford, he's a naïve virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. Decades later, little has changed as the couple (now played by Dench and Jim Broadbent) keeps
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Cast
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Judi Dench
Iris Murdoch -
Kate Winslet
Young Iris Murdoch -
Jim Broadbent
John Bayley -
Hugh Bonneville
Young John Bayley -
Penelope Wilton
Janet Stone -
Juliet Aubrey
Younger Janet -
Samuel West
Young Maurice -
Timothy West
Old Maurice -
Eleanor Bron
College Principal -
Joan Bakewell
TV Presenter -
Kris Marshall
Dr. Gudeon -
Tom Mannion
Neurologist -
Derek Hutchinson
Postman -
Juliet Howland
Emma Stone -
Saira Todd
Phillida Stone -
Emma Handy
Policewoman -
Stephen Marcus
Taxi Driver -
Pauline McLynn
Maureen -
Angela Morant
Hostess -
Siobhan Hayes
Check-out girl -
Gabrielle Reidy
Tricia -
Matilda Allsopp
Little Stone -
Charlotte Arkwright
Young Phillida Stone -
Harriet Arkwright
Young Emma Stone -
Steve Edis
Pianist -
Pauline McGlynn
Maureen -
Nancy Carroll
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All Critics (127) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (24) | DVD (15)
What should have been a stirring, deeply absorbing character study ... emerges instead as a facile, truncated work.
Top Critic[The] performances, if nothing else, embody a standard of excellence that Iris Murdoch herself would surely have cheered.
The impoverished story keeps Iris from achieving greatness, but no qualifiers are needed for the acting.
For a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here.
There are not two, but four sterling performances here.
Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.
Admittedly, it's hard not to be affected.
Despite good acting from the two pairs, viewers expecting illuminating insights about the literary genius, eccentric philosophy and complex sexuality of Iris Murdoch will be disappointed by Richard Eyre's minor, rambling, TV-like film.
...Iris isn't necessarily an enjoyable piece of work, though it's certainly interesting...
There is not a slouch in this film, in front of or behind the camera.
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Foreign Titles
- Magnus Mork in Conversation (UK)
- Iris (2002) (CA)
