Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant and charismatic poet Dylan Thomas who loves them both. Released Nationwide on Friday 27th June.
Outstanding performances from the four main characters, and this film (unexpectedly) blew me away; I was riveted from the start. I am not a huge fan of Knightley or Miller but thought their sensitive portrayal of Vera and Caitlin carried this film. Although the story claims to be about Dylan Thomas, it developed around the two central women and how Thomas affected their relationship. It made me ponder, afterwards, how women and their friendships are so often sent into a tailspin over men.
London during the blitz was convincingly recreated, and there was a sense of people enjoying themselves but on a razor's edge... I was also deeply moved by the emotional minefield that many women faced, upon their husbands' return home from war; not to mention, for soldiers, the shock of returning home to domesticity and expectations that life could continue as before, despite the horrors they had since witnessed.
If you like a film that leaves you thinking, I'd recommend this one. A gem.
"The Edge of Love": Dylan Thomas, good; Sienna Miller and Keira Knightly, not so sure. But then again, before I saw this film I knew little about Thomas"s life. The film follows the poet and writer"s "interesting" relationships with his heavy drinking Irish wife (Miller), their friend Vera (Knightly) and her husband (played by Cillian Murphy). The interests in these relationships are fuelled by historical rumour (apparently, rather than events, though the film does not approach them like rumour) - Vera had lost her virginity to Thomas as a teenager, was his lover during the war, and had a lesbian relationship with his wife. These rumours came to a head in real life when Vera"s husband returned from a stint with the army to find what appeared to be a ménage à trios between Thomas and the two women. This led to violence, trial and... I don"t want to disclose too much. So what do we have in this film? An exciting, sexy story about a great artist. Which is promising. What I particularly liked, however, was that Thomas and the other characters are not portrayed romantically, but emerge from the film as usually unsympathetic characters. The risk this runs is that some viewers, my self on occasion, although I like it, lose the dramatic thrust, sometimes drift, from the story as we cannot identify properly with anyone. I liked the film, but did not know much about Thomas beforehand, and am not sure whether I do now. Greater fans of the man may be more excited or dismayed by the film, but I can"t really tell which. I guess they will want to see it anyway. For the rest of us, however, I think that "The Edge of Love" offers an entertaining two hours. (3/5)
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Set in rural Wales and 1940s London, this biopic tells the story of the romantic complications that arise between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his young wife Caitlin (Sienna Miller), his first love Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley), and her husband William Killick (Cillian Murphy). Dylan Thomas, having been diverted from active duty in the Second World War and employed by the government to produce propaganda for Whitehall, reconnects with his old flame Vera while working in London. Despite his marriage to the feisty Caitlin, Thomas resumes his passionate relationship with Vera. Unusually, despite being rivals in love, Caitlin and Vera form a strong friendship when they meet, and Caitlin continues to indulge in her own extra-marital entanglements. But Vera's marriage to her devoted admirer William, and the effects of the ongoing drama of World War Two, eventually put paid to the unconventional harmony of the bohemian menage a trois, forcing events to a dramatic and violent denouement.
Set against a backdrop of London during World War II, THE EDGE OF LOVE tells the story of a love triangle that forms between renowned poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his young, sultry wife, Cat ( Sienna Miller) and old flame Keira Knightley.
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