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United Kingdom, Germany · 2002
Rated R · 1h 36m
Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron
Genre Drama, Romance
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In 1930s London, sisters Madeleine and Dinah are very close. After Madeleine marries Rickie, however, Rickie and Dinah begin a torrid affair. Rickie and Dinah's relationship would ruin both sisters if the truth were ever to be revealed, and, however the affair ends, will have lasting consequences for all three involved.
While director Thaddeus O'Sullivan has some interesting visual ideas -- his period London is a heavily aestheticized, matte-painted dreamscape -- he never makes an emotional connection to the material the way he did in his fine Irish gangland drama, “Nothing Personal.”
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
It has the feel of those romantic movies of the '40s that no one thinks are made anymore.
Surely it’s a credit to this luminous cast that the characters can behave in such despicable ways yet still command one’s sympathy.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
In their own precisely posed ways, the drenched players in The Heart of Me are as compelling as those in any less decorum-bound love triangle.
Dull and creaky soap opera.
A clean, tasteful drama (sex scenes aside) that's designed to attract Anglophiles who can't resist green lawns, falling leaves, precise diction, and a clean sound mix.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
O'Sullivan's movie could easily have been made 60 years ago. This is not intended as a compliment.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The film is a soapy melodrama set from about 1936 to 1946 and done with style.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The end product suggests tepid, bottom-drawer Merchant-Ivory in which the emotions rarely catch fire.
Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis
It’s all veddy stiff-upper-lip -– this is romance from a masochist’s point of view -– and the intimacy of the emotions often feels cramped.
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