Iris (2001)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Samuel West
Synopsis:
The succumbing of authoress Iris Murdoch to Alzheimer's disease is intercut with scenes of her youth at Oxford with her husband-to-be, which may or may not represent the inner world to which she has retreated.
Review:
Biopic of an artist which gives next to no insight into her artistry, save that words were important to her; hence the cruelty of the illness which reduced her to the level of an inarticulate child - though little time is spent adumbrating that either. The performances are undeniably great, in the same way as they were in Rain Man, for example, but for all its veracity the story leaves the viewer merely morbid and depressed.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Samuel West
Synopsis:
The succumbing of authoress Iris Murdoch to Alzheimer's disease is intercut with scenes of her youth at Oxford with her husband-to-be, which may or may not represent the inner world to which she has retreated.
Review:
Biopic of an artist which gives next to no insight into her artistry, save that words were important to her; hence the cruelty of the illness which reduced her to the level of an inarticulate child - though little time is spent adumbrating that either. The performances are undeniably great, in the same way as they were in Rain Man, for example, but for all its veracity the story leaves the viewer merely morbid and depressed.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Samuel West
Synopsis:
The succumbing of authoress Iris Murdoch to Alzheimer's disease is intercut with scenes of her youth at Oxford with her husband-to-be, which may or may not represent the inner world to which she has retreated.
Review:
Biopic of an artist which gives next to no insight into her artistry, save that words were important to her; hence the cruelty of the illness which reduced her to the level of an inarticulate child - though little time is spent adumbrating that either. The performances are undeniably great, in the same way as they were in Rain Man, for example, but for all its veracity the story leaves the viewer merely morbid and depressed.