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Dominican Rep. Iris
3,307
Drama
Iris Murdoch (Winslet, Dench) was one of the most extraordinary women of her generation. A brilliant scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, she later became a noted philosopher and novelist. Through it all, her soulmate and husband, John Bayley (Broadbent, Bonneville) stood beside her every step of the way. Based on the memoir Elegy for Iris by John Bayley.
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"It's like a biopic of Shakespeare that cuts back and forth between his apprentice days and his retirement in Stratford (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" | NEU |
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"A magnificent story about the enduring bond between two eccentric, astounding souls who somehow managed to find each other and hold on for dear life." | POS |
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"Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema." | POS |
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"A triumph on the casting side but less so dramatically, Richard Eyre's Iris fails to do full justice to its subject." | NEU |
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"Despite the sad denouement, it's still the love story of the year (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" | POS |
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"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." | POS |
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