The film's cinematic signature is made up of moody imagery that is still grounded in reality, but with poetic flourish. Angela Badalamenti's score is elegantly understated
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The Edge of Love (2009)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:18
Rotten:35
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Despite effective performances from Knightley and Miller, The Edge of Love lacks a coherent narrative.
Theatrical Release:2008
Synopsis: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives... [More]
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Director: John Maybury
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Reviews for The Edge of Love
I thought it looked incredible.
03/16/09
Edge doesn't aspire to be anything more than a juicy British wartime soap opera, but when it finds delicious pockets of whispered betrayal, artistic impotency, and cherry-lipped invitation, it adds up to a convincing sit.
03/12/09
Dylan Thomas's life is represented here, but John Maybury's hollow romantic drama is more interested in his women than in his literary art.
08/29/08
An intense and strangely beautiful film...
08/29/08
A literary tale featuring Matthew Rhys as the poet Dylan Thomas in which Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley fill up the screen with their beauty and vitality.
03/12/09
Solid, if melodramatic...
08/29/08
The movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.
03/20/09
Top CriticLove, war and poetry swirl together to form this cocktail of a film, in which fantasy and reality are the main, but conflicting ingredients
08/14/08
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.
03/20/09
Impressively directed, superbly written drama with career-best performances from both Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.
07/18/08
Though very uneven in style and focus . . . the fraught complications among the foursome raise universal issues of freewheeling young love and friendship during wartime.
03/22/09
Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics.
08/29/08
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]
07/08/09
The film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind beyond their control.
06/18/08
As a look at two women who find an unusual connection, it's rather beautiful.
06/19/08
A period romance, charged with provocative undercurrents about art, war and the eternal battle of the sexes.
03/20/09
...wonderful performances by all the actors, but historically misleading, and doesn't scratch the surface of what bohemian monsters Dylan & Caitlin Thomas were.
03/15/09
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.
03/20/09
It felt like a lighting class, not a movie.
03/16/09
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