The Edge of Love (2008)
Not an overly bad film about the friendship of the two women who were in love with Dylan Thomas, one of which was married to him. Most of the film is fairly accurate which makes Thomas look like the jerk he tried to be. His line in the movie about why he acts the way he does: "because I'm a poet . . ." He also sucked the life out of everybody else around him. But goodness, his poetry is beautiful. I've had two cassette tapes since I was 16 of him reading his poems.
But the movie really isn't about him. Keira Knightley stars. The screenwriter is her mother. The producer is the granddaughter of her character and either Thomas of her husband. Hard to tell from how the article phrased it.
The rating is R and somewhere it says partly due to "constant historical smoking." That's an understatement. The extras include a fairly funny "gag reel" which shows the cast trying to act while having to smoke so much. The commentary extra is fairly worthless.
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
aka "I've Loved You So Long" -
Kirsten Scott Thomas is great as a just-released-from-prison woman who goes to live with her sister and the sister's family. The ending seems a bit overdone until you realize the prison sentence is about Thomas' response to her actions. In French with subtitles. Her bio quotes her as saying one of the benefits of e-mail and text messaging is that people aren't as afraid of subtitles as they used to be. Oh, she smokes a lot in the movie but then she's lived in France longer than she lived in her native England. The commentary on the deleted scenes is worth watching.
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