Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Edge of Love (2008)



Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Nicely produced with good period detail, this melodrama lacks any dramatically meaningful development, and Dylan Thomas is portrayed as such a disagreeable person that one wonders what all the fuss is about.

Maltin*1/2: "Mawkish soaper...Means to be lyrical and insightful, but the characters are superficially rendered and the actors fail to rise above the material. It seems of minor importance that the poet is Dylan Thomas and the story is "inspired, in part, by actual events.""

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