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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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 its a credit to this luminous cast that the characters can behave in such despicable ways yet still command ones 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
Its all veddy stiff-upper-lip - this is romance from a masochists point of view - and the intimacy of the emotions often feels cramped.