Synopsis
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
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Cast
- Keira KnightleyVera Phillips
- Sienna MillerCaitlin MacNamara
- Matthew RhysDylan Thomas
- Cillian MurphyWilliam Killick
- Lisa StansfieldRuth Williams
- Richard DillaneLt Col David Talbot Rice
- Anne LambtonAnita Shenkin
- Alastair MackenzieAnthony Devas
- Camilla RutherfordNicolette
- Richard CliffordAlistair Graham
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
The cast is strong and the first act has an intriguingly dreamy quality, but it gives way to a soggy ending. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star. - 50
Variety
While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama. - 50
The A.V. Club
The Edge Of Love is more like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do. - 50
Washington Post
That none of the protagonists earns the audience's sympathy is more likely a failure of the real-life characters rather than the actors, who deliver fine performances -- especially Rhys, who seems to be channeling Richard Burton channeling Dylan Thomas at his most manipulatively loutish. - 42
Christian Science Monitor
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Sometimes glossy, sometimes hard-edged, the film alternates between glitz and unpleasantness and ends as a kind of glum soap opera, too glam to be bleak and too bleak to be so glam. - 40
New York Daily News
The Edge of Love may be intended as a biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, but it’s destined to be remembered as the movie that brought Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller into the same bathtub.
