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Summary: ELEGANT BUT UNINSPIRED
Review: The Wings of the Dove has a great scene towards the end where the two lover make love. Its sex without love or even lust but soaked in guilt and self loathing. It is a morosely erotic scene. Unfortunatley the rest of the film doesn't match that level of intensity, but is a rather mechanical exercise in love-triangle drama. This is strange as director (Iain Sofetly) of Backbeat tries to break all genre conventions with kinetic camera work and Helena Bonham Carter gives a wonderful performance rich with lust, selfishness and guilt. Its rather inexplicapable then that the film never truly reaches a take off point or a level of emotional involvment as for example a slow burner like Merchant Ivory's Howards End and certainly not even in the vicinity of their masterful The Remains of The Day. No this is more similar to MerchantIvory's 1986 film A Room With A View, also an elegant film, also starring Carter that similarly fails to engage on an emotional level.
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Summary: Powerful Drama Loaded With Fascinating Visuals
Review: This cinematic treat brings a tasty feast for those who (wisely) adore Helena Bonham Carter. Whilst I am not a strong fan of the author's literary hazings, this adaption of The Wings of the Dove presents us with a story that we can drink in with all six senses. It was by pure chance that I watched this DVD as my theater coach picked it up. My coach was a tad disappointed, as he mistook the title for a musical based on the 1970s Pippin pop hit "The Tears of a Clown." His error was my blessing; not only do we witness a subtle tragedy seeing powerful characters forced to live on after imploding their mutual passion, but we get to see Helena Bonham Carter nude. This also did not impress my acting coach. The only resistance I have in granting this fine work a full five star salute reveals itself in overtly borrowed cinematic visuals. I might be wrong, but the final moments of the film seem to be borrowed directly from the 1977 film "Teenage Cruisers," in which an escaped sanitarium patient holds William Margold as her sexual hostage; he is bound and gagged, forced to drink in her visual nude teasings. If I am correct, it bothers me that Wings of a Dove would take such a misogynist take on the matter, as Carter is abandoned after undressing in front of her lover. Still, I highly recommend this body of work. The directorial pacing is reminiscent of René Cardonas' earlier projects, which in itself is worth the look.
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Summary: This is a brilliantly acted, and indeed derected, film.
Review: This film cannot be recommended strongly enough. The cinematography is breathtaking, and the story is equally brilliant. The love between the young Englishman and the American lady is at once maddening and moving. This piece belongs on the shelf of any movie lover.
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Summary: A powerful drama between love, hate, jealousy, & money
Review: This is a powerful film that discloses the real human dramatic art in the acient time. It shows us how people allowed themselves to be polluted and caught in between being materialistic and superficial. It is a wonderful display for us as audience to understand how these characters are survived within the circle of love, hate, jealousy, and money. Love twists people to be weak, greedy and insecure, etc. It's is one of the best novel from Henry James and one of the best movie that I would make a recommendation to friends.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!!!!
Review: This movie is about as good as it gets on the genru of Love Traingles. It has a great dose of greed, deception, and sociatel cruelty. Linus Roache gives a powerful performance in this one. His role in the main character in this terrible twist of falling in love with the one less immediately thought of. The Auntie even is in the love controlling game. I'm sure in true form this went on in Edwardian England. It goes to show the doubter that one can find his/her true love in a place as romantic as Venice, Italy. This flick cements ALL can truly do dramatic cinema. In the end the remaing living two find guilt as a sum of money fall on thier laps as the dead of the triangle leaves money to him. This movie is great not just for woamn but anyone who appreciates a good Art House, & International genru cinema.
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Summary: Exquisitely amazing in every way....
Review: this movie is so beautiful and depressing.. we need more movies like it.
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Summary: It Soars!
Review: This wondeful film is finally on video! (After such a long wait!) Here's a actual story. Not just boy meets girl. It has much deeper and more complicated emotions throughout. It's a triumph for Helena Bonham Carter. She should have won the Oscar.
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Summary: Love for the body crime!
Review: well...I can't confess to have seen this DVD..
but what I can confess is to profess to have seen beauty.
I bought this DVD because the woman I ...have had my garden thrashed by, loved this film...she has yet to experience the mystery of the DVD technology...I'd like to thank her for her sweetness, love of park benches, and eyes of jade; perfect inspiration for rhymes to be made.
She knows a lot about things that smell nice, though she herself is a mistress of spice.
"Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?"
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Summary: IT'S HELENA BONHAM CARTER...WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?
Review: Why, oh, why can't American films take a hint from these wonderful British films? No explosions. No special effects. No half-naked jiggly girls to keep the teenage boys happy. Just solid first-rate acting. Intelligent dialog. Beautiful scenery. Is it really too much to ask for?This is a gorgeous movie. Helena Bonham Carter is excellent, as usual. You can read the plot summaries from other reviewers here, so I won't elaborate. But I do urge you to rent or buy this movie. It's a wonderful story of love, betrayal, sex (yup, there's some of that), guilt, and innocence lost. It's much more than a mere "chick flick".
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Summary: excellent until the rather rushed ending
Review: Wings of the Dove was one of those gems that got lost in the wildly overrated juggernaut that was James Cameron's Titanic. A simple but emotionally complex story of love and betrayal, this film features amazing,poignant perfomances from Allison Elliot and the continuously amazing Helena Bonham Carter. This would have been a perfect film, except for the rather abrupt ending(having not read the original novel, I am not sure who is responsible for it) But despite this flaw, Wings of the Dove was infinitely more romantic and entertaining than Titanic was.
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