Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 4, 2007 23:42:14 GMT
Iris Richard Eyre 2001 UK / USA As she descends into the depths of Alzheimer's, novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, cared for by her clumsy, loving husband John Bayley, remembers her younger years at Cambridge. A rather bleak film, seemingly obsessed with the unavoidability of death, though it is nevertheless a celebration of humanity's love. The narrative has a shape to it, with Winslet as the young Iris intercut with Dench as the older one, and the two compliment one another beautifully. Mundanely shot, but it's not about the visuals at all, really; as a kind of recording of Memory as the lasting result of two an intimate marriage, it's effective, and worth watching once. Bergman could have made it into a masterpiece.
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