
#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom’s poetry doesn’t bring in enough to live on, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Plot: The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
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A very sad story
Unlike many biographical films this one doesn’t alter things so much from the historical record. It doesn’t make one person more sympathetic than they were in reality, and, as the ending shows, it reaches not a grand finale, but a whimper. (Apologies for the nod to Eliot’s most famous line – which he found tiresome too)This is a very sad story because the principals in real life were devoted to each other, but for a range of almost mysterious reasons to contemporary audiences, Vivienne’s various maladies, mental and gynecological, are shrouded. Richardson carries this role well, and she almost owned the canon of disturbed women for a while in her career.
The stand out is Dafoe as Eliot. Dafoe has the solemn, dignified, presence; the accent of period Englishness of a certain class and his American accent suppressed in the voice but mingled nearly perfectly to sound like Eliot. In addition Eliot’s life, especially during these turbulent chapters were smothered, and to see Dafoe incarnate Eliot gives life to a man who was often an abstracted mind.
This is a fine production in almost all respects although it may not have a wide appeal.
The thunder speaks to Tom and Viv
The film starts with a passionate embrace between Tom and Viv on the innocent setting of an Oxford punt. For the next quarter of an hour you may think that this will be an ordinary, merchant ivory type film about an upper-crust gal and her american beau writing away their cares in the dreaming spires of Oxford. However the idyllic setting and the gentle breezes soon fade into nothingness and before long you are forced to comprehend the tortured soul of one suffering from mental hysteria and the immediate effects of that on those who are subjected to the outbursts. Miranda Richardson’s performance as the highly strung wife of one of our most famous poets, takes this film to another level. Although the story is essentially a simple love story why it sits apart from the rest is purely down to the fact that Tom suffers Viv’s neuroses silently like the true English gentleman he has become. Devotees of T.S. Elliot may find that the film is superficial in its reference to his work and that the focus is centered on Viv. Yet at the end of the film I was left with a heightened awareness of what and who might have propelled him to write the way he did. This bitter-sweet film tugs at the heart strings just so.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 5 min (125 min), 1 hr 55 min (115 min) (Argentina), 2 hr 6 min (126 min) (Sweden), 2 hr 5 min (125 min) (UK), 1 hr 55 min (115 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
Director Brian Gilbert
Writer Michael Hastings, Adrian Hodges
Actors Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 3 wins & 6 nominations total
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Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)