Synopsis
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
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Cast
- Helena Bonham CarterDinah
- Olivia WilliamsMadeleine
- Paul BettanyRickie
- Eleanor BronMrs. Burkett
- Tom WardJack
- Luke NewberryAnthony
- Gillian HannaBetty
- Andrew HavillCharles
- Alison ReidBridie
- John RoweDrysdale
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The film is a soapy melodrama set from about 1936 to 1946 and done with style. - 75
Premiere
Surely it’s a credit to this luminous cast that the characters can behave in such despicable ways yet still command one’s sympathy. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
In their own precisely posed ways, the drenched players in The Heart of Me are as compelling as those in any less decorum-bound love triangle. - 63
New York Daily News
It has the feel of those romantic movies of the '40s that no one thinks are made anymore. - 50
Austin Chronicle
It’s all veddy stiff-upper-lip -– this is romance from a masochist’s point of view -– and the intimacy of the emotions often feels cramped. - 50
The A.V. Club
A clean, tasteful drama (sex scenes aside) that's designed to attract Anglophiles who can't resist green lawns, falling leaves, precise diction, and a clean sound mix. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
O'Sullivan's movie could easily have been made 60 years ago. This is not intended as a compliment. - 40
L.A. Weekly
While director Thaddeus O'Sullivan has some interesting visual ideas -- his period London is a heavily aestheticized, matte-painted dreamscape -- he never makes an emotional connection to the material the way he did in his fine Irish gangland drama, “Nothing Personal.”