Iris

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United Kingdom, United States

2001

Rated R · 1h 31m

Director Richard Eyre

Starring Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville

Genre Drama, Romance

A biopic which follows Iris Murdoch from her time as a brilliant scholar at Oxford through her illustrious career as a well-known European philosopher and novelist, ending with her in old age, sick from dementia as she deals with Alzheimer's disease.

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Washington Post by

Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.

New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

Dench is wholly extraordinary in a characterization that is frequently muted, literally and necessarily.

Salon by Charles Taylor

Suffers from PBS syndrome, but Dame Judi Dench cures with a moving portrayal of life with Alzheimer's.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Dench and Winslet give strong and creative performances, and Broadbent is positively brilliant as old Bayley.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

A saga of unbearable sadness and romantic beauty.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

The film is not a biopic or a portrait of a famous marriage so much as it is an imaginative essay on what made a union between two radically different people work as well as it did.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

It's a great achievement, quiet enough to allow room for her excellent supporting cast -- but strong enough to be felt over James Horner's omnipresent, typically overbearing score.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Though Iris is extremely well-acted and beautifully photographed, some audience members may find themselves agreeing with Bayley's frustrated complaint: "I've never known who you are."

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak

The film is so crisply acted and smartly drawn that you barely notice the cracks in the veneer.

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