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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Richard Eyre
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Actors:
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Eleanor Bron,
Penelope Wilton,
Derek Hutchinson,
Angela Morant,
Joan Bakewell,
Nancy Carroll,
Kate Winslet,
Hugh Bonneville,
Judi Dench,
Jim Broadbent,
Siobhan Hayes,
Juliet Aubrey,
Kris Marshall,
Tom Mannion,
Samuel West
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)116.5
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by means of John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking myth of the writer's 40-year exoticism with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the unfledged Iris and John (played away Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the apogee of their romantic adventures as students at Oxford in the 1950s, and the past middle age four (played by Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent), struggling with Iris' incline, as her distinguished mind is ravaged close the effects of Alzheimer's.
Judi Dench gives an outstanding playing--he... r transfigurement from a bounteous ability of the written and spoken word (Murdoch wrote 26 novels), to the puerile state of losing her language facilities entirely, is truly wrenching. Jim Broadbent is equally sad as her partner due to the fact that life, who has adored the ardent Iris since they met, but was never fully able to possess her until the tragic end, when he declares in remorse, I've got you in these times, and I don't bloody demand you! Directed by Richard Eyre, artistic boss of Britain's Royal National Theater, the cover is uniquely sensitive and finely acted.
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Iris
"They were like two halves of an apple." That's how actress Judi Dench describes the relationship between novelist Iris Murdoch and critic John Bayley detailed in "Iris," but that pithy characterization also explains why this intelligent, poignant film is so affecting.
It's not only that Murdoch and Bayley had just that kind of kinship over the span of a 40-plus year marriage, it's that the actors manage an identically close and intimate relationship both to each other and to the characters they play. It's rare for all those connections to be as strong and intense as they are here. Even more unusual is that these bonds are formed among not two actors but four; because the film's narration cuts back and forth between the early days of Murdoch and Bayley's ac...
Iris
Well acted, emotionally charged and disturbing. Definitely not a "Feel good" film
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