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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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Christine Jeffs
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Actors:
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Alison Bruce,
Julian Firth,
Liddy Holloway,
David Birkin,
Lucy Davenport,
Andrew Havill,
Theresa Healey,
Jeremy Fowlds,
Sarah Guyler,
Robyn Malcolm,
Amira Casar,
Daniel Craig,
Blythe Danner,
Michael Gambon,
Jared Harris
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Duration:
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110 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)136
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Plot Summary:
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Top-drawer but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath's early relationship with partner and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted's ambition and success. In the pioneer years of their connection Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted's infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted's extra-marital affairs are the fruit of Sylvia's own insecurities or whether Sylvia's deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only toward the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to legitimately explore the night depths of her ardour and list the ... searingly lustrous verse that earned her fame.Read more Less
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Good if you like poetry.
Being a Plath fan, I had high expectations of this movie. Initially, I wondered about Gweneth Paltrow's compatibility with this role. During the opening period of this movie, I did not feel convinced enough of the characters on-screen chemistry; that someone as dry and apathetic as Plath's poetry would have her seem, would rush head over heals in love with a man who's name she had just learnt.
My pessimism put aside, I found myself quite pleasantly surprised with Paltrow's acting range. I found she really mastered this role and brought out Plath’s happy and loving side. I even had to remind myself that Gweneth Paltrow, was in fact, not Sylvia Plath, but a very convincing actress! Some very good work from all members of the cast, this movie left me both moved and...
Sylvia
Maybe not everyone cups of tea as it's a dark movie on Sylvia Plath's encroaching mental illness, and its influence on her work.
The movie gives a sense of the poet state of mind during her life, until she commits suicide.
It's an attempt to explain the macabre, hallucinatory and emotional power in her poems imagery.
This was not an easy subject to cover and I think it was done rather well.
Sylvia
Who was Sylvia Plath? According to this patchy, dislocated biopic, the American poetess was a suicidal, mate-obsessed girl whose resourceful warmth was too soon extinguished when she took her own life story in 1963. Relegating the people and events of the patch to the CV, the obscure centres on the love affair between Plath and her husband, future rhymester laureate Ted Hughes. What draws us in is the important performance of Gwyneth Paltrow — as flinty as it is unshielded — while Daniel Craig's turn as Hughes is also superbly conveyed. Regardless, John Brownlow's scenario tends to legalize Plath's go and so the coat becomes just another attractive-child-in-anguish life story, à la Hilary and Jackie and Iris. Despite some atmospheric profession from ...
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