The Heart of Me
by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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Actor: Eleanor Bron, Helena Bonham Carter, Luke Newberry, Olivia Williams, Paul BettanyDirector: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Brand: Hart Sharp Video
Producer: David M. Thompson
Producer: Gary Tuck
Producer: Keith Evans
Producer: Martin Pope
Producer: Paul Federbush
Writer: Lucinda Coxon
Writer: Rosamond Lehmann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
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Summary: 4 Stars
Rosamund Lehmann's beautiful novels about love and infidelity always had titles as poetic as all get-out, that would translate badly into film titles: the 1953 novel, THE ECHOING GROVE, which she used as the capstone for the major part of her literary career, was no exception. Why the producers of this adaptation of that novel would have instead settled on a title nearly as oblique is something of a mystery, but is almost certainly why this lovely and evocative (if finally somewhat unsatisfying) period drama did not receive much notice when it was released in the United States. But it's worth a look especially for fans of the fine British actresses Olivia Williams and Helena Bonham-Carter, who are allowed two of their best and most challenging roles in their very sumptuous film.
In 1935, the handsome and charismatic Rickie Masters (Paul Bettany) is married to and has a child with the cool and proper Madeleine (Williams), but longs for her Bohemian sister Dinah Burkett (Bonham-Carter). The two embark upon an affair which ultimately results in an unexpected tragedy; when Madeleine discovers the news she is devastated, and forces Rickie to choose. Although he ultimately decides to leave her for Dinah. Madeleine, with the help of the Burkett sisters' elegant mother (the formidable Eleanor Bron), practices a deception that brings Rickie back to her. Years later after the war (and Rickie's death), the two sisters must learn to appreciate the other's losses and reconcile.
Bonham-Carter's early career resulted in her being typecast in period roles, and since then she stays mostly away from them unless the part is impossible to turn down (as in THE WINGS OF THE DOVE). That she should have chose to do this role signifies how beautifully written it is and what an opportunity it allows for her to do: her older Dinah is the same woman as we see Bonham-Carter play ten years younger, but her years of unhappiness and loneliness give her a deeper sense of human understanding and dull her selfishness. Olivia Williams gets the rare chance to play a film role worthy of her talents, and her Madeleine grows from being a repressed and resentful woman to someone also more giving and kindly (but only after some catharsis). The screenplay perhaps skimps a bit on the causes of this change, and the producers also make a fundamental error in casting the pallid Paul Bettany as Rickie, the object of the two sisters' squabbling. His is the sort of role Ralph Fiennes always plays--the charismatic successful loner driven nearly to madness by love--, but Bettany is far too bland to bring off the role with the kind of panache Fiennes always delivers. The sets and costumes are exquisite, as are some of the exterior shots filmed on the Isle of Man (doubling for the English Southern coast).
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