Synopsis
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Cast
- Kate WinsletYoung Iris Murdoch
- Judi DenchIris Murdoch
- Jim BroadbentJohn Bayley
- Hugh BonnevilleYoung John Bayley
- Penelope WiltonJanet Stone
- Samuel WestYoung Maurice
- Timothy WestOlder Maurice
- Kris MarshallDr. Gudgeon
- Juliet AubreyYoung Janet Stone
- Derek HutchinsonPostman
Recommandations
- 90
Washington Post
A saga of unbearable sadness and romantic beauty. - 90
Washington Post
Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema. - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film is so crisply acted and smartly drawn that you barely notice the cracks in the veneer. - 80
Salon
Suffers from PBS syndrome, but Dame Judi Dench cures with a moving portrayal of life with Alzheimer's. - 80
New Times (L.A.)
Dench is wholly extraordinary in a characterization that is frequently muted, literally and necessarily. - 80
L.A. Weekly
The film is not a biopic or a portrait of a famous marriage so much as it is an imaginative essay on what made a union between two radically different people work as well as it did. - 75
Chicago Tribune
It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings. - 75
New York Post
Though Iris is extremely well-acted and beautifully photographed, some audience members may find themselves agreeing with Bayley's frustrated complaint: "I've never known who you are."
