Love endures. That’s perhaps the most important lesson to be learned in this unconventional love story.
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07/05/02
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Iris (2001)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:85
Rotten:23
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A solidly constructed drama, Iris is greatly elevated by the strength of its four lead performances.
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $5,372,026
Synopsis: Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back... [More]
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Richard Eyre
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Reviews for Iris
Romantic - not of finding, but of knowing...the longer journey of being in love together, and living through what they experience.
07/01/02
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06/20/02
Anyone who wants to join my newly formed Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Iris Murdoch's Memory (SPCIMM), please contact me immediately.
05/30/02
Si han amado a alguien de tal modo que duele el hacerlo, esta es la cinta que deben ver.
05/12/02
Structurally, this is a cumbersome, unbalanced film, but it is brilliantly acted.
04/03/02
When the film tried to put something in about her work, it failed to do it with any cohesion.
03/18/02
A subtle, poignant portrait of mature love, of the strength and conviction required to keep the faith.
03/15/02
you almost get the feeling she copulated with the lads to get nearer their minds and with the gals for the sheer fun of it.
03/14/02
...spoke to me directly as if it weren't a movie at all but loved ones whom I was witnessing going through the emotional upheaval of Alzheimer's.
03/07/02
Iris fails to enlighten us into either the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease or the woman that it strikes.
03/05/02
... the film is cursory and shallow ...
03/04/02
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03/02/02
The film is about the power of the mind and the tragedy of losing it, but it is also a very moving love story, played with heartbreaking sincerity by Broadbent.
03/01/02
[Winslet] is so utterly, fearlessly winning that she peels the arrogance off Iris, makes her shine with life strength.
03/01/02
What should have been a stirring, deeply absorbing character study ... emerges instead as a facile, truncated work.
03/01/02
Pays its respects to the couple whose lives it portrays through the homage of magnificent performance tastefully mounted.
03/01/02
[Eyre's] cinematic sensibility has a literary quality, as past and present become a seamless single entity.
03/01/02
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