Iris R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2012
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent & Judi Dench | |
Performer: | Hugh Bonneville & Penelope Wilton | |
Directed by | Richard Eyre | |
Edited by | Martin Walsh | |
Screenwriting by | Charles Wood & Richard Eyre | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | Scott Rudin | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Pratt |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2001 -
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
For a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...Iris isn't necessarily an enjoyable piece of work, though it's certainly interesting...
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Reel Film Reviews
...Dench so naturally captures the disoriented innocence of those with Alzheimer's that it's almost eerie to watch her transformation....The love story of the year...
USA Today
A mechanical, shallow reduction of a person's life.
The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Rating: 3/4 --
...intrigues and devastates.
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Seattle Times
...The film does feature a lovely, subdued score by James Horner...
Box Office
Rating: 3/5 --
[The] performances, if nothing else, embody a standard of excellence that Iris Murdoch herself would surely have cheered.
Orlando Sentinel
Product Description:
Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height of their romantic adventures as students at Oxford in the 1950s, and the elderly couple (played by Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent), struggling with Iris' decline, as her brilliant mind is ravaged by the effects of Alzheimer's.
Judi Dench gives an outstanding performance--her transformation from a prolific genius of the written and spoken word (Murdoch wrote 26 novels), to the infantile state of losing her language facilities altogether, is truly wrenching. Jim Broadbent is equally touching as her partner for life, who has adored the passionate Iris since they met, but was never fully able to possess her until the tragic end, when he declares in grief, "I've got you now, and I don't bloody want you!" Directed by Richard Eyre, artistic director of Britain's Royal National Theater, the film is uniquely sensitive and finely acted.
Judi Dench gives an outstanding performance--her transformation from a prolific genius of the written and spoken word (Murdoch wrote 26 novels), to the infantile state of losing her language facilities altogether, is truly wrenching. Jim Broadbent is equally touching as her partner for life, who has adored the passionate Iris since they met, but was never fully able to possess her until the tragic end, when he declares in grief, "I've got you now, and I don't bloody want you!" Directed by Richard Eyre, artistic director of Britain's Royal National Theater, the film is uniquely sensitive and finely acted.
Keywords:
Live-Action
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True Story
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Love Story
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Marriage
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Product Info
- UPC: 031398150718
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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