The Wings of the Dove
starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth McGovern
directed by: Iain Softley
directed by: Iain Softley
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BOHMAN CARTER,HELEN
EAN: 9780788815492
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788815490
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 12260
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1997
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Highly acclaimed as one of the year's most outstanding movies, THE WINGS OF THE DOVE is a provocative tale of passion, temptation, and greed. Helena Bonham Carter (HOWARDS END) delivers a stunning, award-winning performance as Kate, a beautiful young society woman whose desire for a common journalist (Linus Roache) presents her with an impossible decision: leave him, or marry -- and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist, however, when Kate befriends a lonely young heiress (Alison Elliott) whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible ... but dangerous ... solution. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards(R), this intriguing story of forbidden love is a motion picture event you won't soon forget!
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Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure--more PBS than MTV--for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money.
Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honors for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity--admittedly sordid--arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme.
One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own film for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a 'chick flick.' Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. --Donald Liebenson
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- Good adptation, good acting, good entertainment.Not exactly an award-winning-production but not commercial garbage either. Superb acting, especially ... Read More
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- The Law of Unintended Consequences, via Henry JamesThis exquisite, if not entirely literal, adaptation of Henry James's novel of the same name, examines ... Read More
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- Chick flickYes, this should be dismissed as a "chick flick," for that is indeed what it is. A three hankie, extremely ... Read More
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- Moody, elegant, perfect!Not being a fan of Helena Bonham Carter, costume dramas, or Henry James, I purchased this DVD because it featured ... Read More
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- ReviewI gave it a 3 because I could not give it a 3.5.
I turned it off the first time I watched it because ... Read More
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