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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
Where did "Iris" go wrong? What should have been a stirring, deeply absorbing character study of the success and decline of the late British novelist, philosopher and iconoclast Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) emerges instead as a facile, truncated work that only barely touches on the essence of her relationship with her husband and ignores her writing altogether. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The film "Iris," directed by the London stage director Richard Eyre and written by Eyre and the playwright Charles Wood, is literate, fair and well-acted, but is this particular film necessary? ...
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
A trifle too heavy-handedly, the film crosscuts between the free-spirited Iris and nerdy, naive John of youth and their aged, infirm later selves. Iris takes on faith that, like Bayley, we'll appreciate Murdoch's genius and view her debilitating descent as somehow more tragic than a "normal" person's because she lived a life of the mind. ...
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
Because the performances are so powerful, one nearly forgets that in its vaulting between the '50s and '90s, "Iris" is a story with a beginning and end but without a middle. Two slices of bread without the sandwich meat, I wrote in my notes. ...
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Iris
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(2002)
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Overview:
This film follows the life of celebrated author Iris Murdoch, from her days as a brilliant scholar at Oxford, where she thrilled the world around her with her libertine spirit, through her career as a philosopher and novelist. And through it all, one man stood beside her every step of the way -- John Bayley, her unlikely soulmate, who for better or for worse, would love her all her life.
Starring:
Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Juliet Aubrey, Samuel West, Timothy West and Eleanor Bron
Directed by:
Richard Eyre
Written by:
Charles Wood and Eyre
Screenplay:
Based on the books, "Iris: A Memoir" and "An Elegy for Iris," by John Bayley
Cinematographer:
Roger Pratt
Composer:
James Horner
Studio:
Miramax
Release Date:
March 1, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(R) - for sexuality/nudity and some language
Running Time:
88 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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