Review of The Edge of Love (2008) by Florian S — 06 May 2010
What stared out as a boring, badly lit WW2 movie with Keira Knightley lip-singing, soon transformed into a engrossing love foursome that comes out of nowhere. I found myself liking the movie much more then I thought possible.
Great acting suprisingly from Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley and of course its visually striking, not so much in the epic English films are but its pretty visual. What saved this movie was simply the writting, unfolding as a love story soon becoming a complicated love story with WW2 as the backdrop until finally one of the characters explodes.
Exploring war, poetry, jealous, loneliness, marriage and love. This slow unfolding of the story is what keeps you interested enough not to turn it off and soon you discover yourself unable to look away at Cillian Murphy during the final half.
Well executed, directed and acted film that shouldn't be written off because it simply delievers on all points, even the slow ones.
This review of The Edge of Love (2008) was written by Florian S on 06 May 2010.
The Edge of Love has generally received mixed reviews.
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