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Heart of Me, The
ThinkFilm Inc.
MPAA RATING: R for some sexuality
Starring
Helena Bonham Carter,
Olivia Williams,
Paul Bettany,
Eleanor Bron,
Luke Newberry,
Gillian Hanna,
Andrew Havill,
and
Shaughan Seymour
Upper crust England before, during and after WWII provides the backdrop for The Heart of Me, a richly emotional drama about the seductive -- and destructive -- nature of passion. (ThinkFilm)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lucinda Coxon
Rosamond Lehmann (novel The Echoing Grove)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 10, 2004
Video: February 10, 2004
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / Germany |

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90
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Its intelligent characterizations make it one of the best movies I've seen this year.

90
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Old-fashioned moviemaking at its best.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is a soapy melodrama set from about 1936 to 1946 and done with style.

75
Premiere
Kelly Borgeson
Surely its a credit to this luminous cast that the characters can behave in such despicable ways yet still command ones sympathy.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The film's power grows from its dark-toned portrayal of the World War II era and from its evocative use of flashbacks, which show more interest in the characters' emotional lives than in story devices like surprise and suspense.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Solidly entertaining for those who like their dialogue crisp and with a main verb in every sentence.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Perhaps The Heart of Me's greatest success is the way it avoids turning any of its characters into villains. They all act badly at times, but we feel for them just the same; they never lose our sympathy. Weepy or not, that's an accomplishment any kind of film can feel proud of.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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
Jami Bernard
It has the feel of those romantic movies of the '40s that no one thinks are made anymore.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The first half of The Heart of Me is just that sort of hoot. You know where it's all headed, and you can't wait for it to get there, as the cheap, cruel ironies pile up almost farcically.

63
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
A handsome but lightweight period piece about passions indulged and repressed, and the calamitous outcomes that result from both courses.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Their dilemmas are the stuff of dozens of Masterpiece Theater productions, but they're brought to life with a vividness that defies changing mores and cuts to the heart of the ways people justify hurting each other in the name of love.

60
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
If you want to drift through emotional turmoil and a harrowing loss of security both personal and national, this project may provide some soggy satisfaction.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There's heart but not much heat in this film version of "The Echoing Grove."

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Madeleine's such a cold bitch that the adulterous lovers' anguished scruples scan like inert masochism.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Rote drama better suited for British television than theaters.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
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.

50
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Its all veddy stiff-upper-lip - this is romance from a masochists point of view - and the intimacy of the emotions often feels cramped.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
By a certain point The Heart of Me becomes pointlessly depressing and unlikable without offering insight.

40
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
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.

40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
O'Sullivan's movie could easily have been made 60 years ago. This is not intended as a compliment.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The end product suggests tepid, bottom-drawer Merchant-Ivory in which the emotions rarely catch fire.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Dull and creaky soap opera.

10
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Terribly tragic, terribly romantic and, ultimately, terribly, terribly dull.


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