The Heart of Me (2002)
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 96m
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron
Synopsis:
Between the wars, the rivalry of a pair of sisters for the affection of their father is replaced on his death by that for possession of the elder's husband.
Review:
Taken from a fifties novel, The Echoing Grove, but at the time lost in an excess of Forster, James and Wharton adaptations, the film offers an excessive history of marital infidelity but is saved by the performances. Bonham Carter, who can do this type of role in her sleep, is faced, as Dinah, with the unappetising choice between love or marriage: the music and the kite flying direct us which way to feel. Cinematography a little muddily toned and lit.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 96m
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron
Synopsis:
Between the wars, the rivalry of a pair of sisters for the affection of their father is replaced on his death by that for possession of the elder's husband.
Review:
Taken from a fifties novel, The Echoing Grove, but at the time lost in an excess of Forster, James and Wharton adaptations, the film offers an excessive history of marital infidelity but is saved by the performances. Bonham Carter, who can do this type of role in her sleep, is faced, as Dinah, with the unappetising choice between love or marriage: the music and the kite flying direct us which way to feel. Cinematography a little muddily toned and lit.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: col 96m
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron
Synopsis:
Between the wars, the rivalry of a pair of sisters for the affection of their father is replaced on his death by that for possession of the elder's husband.
Review:
Taken from a fifties novel, The Echoing Grove, but at the time lost in an excess of Forster, James and Wharton adaptations, the film offers an excessive history of marital infidelity but is saved by the performances. Bonham Carter, who can do this type of role in her sleep, is faced, as Dinah, with the unappetising choice between love or marriage: the music and the kite flying direct us which way to feel. Cinematography a little muddily toned and lit.