Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Raymond Llewellyn
- Dewi Ianthe
- (as Ray Llewellyn)
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- TriviaKeira Knightley does all of her own singing in the film. She worked with vocal coach Claire Underwood to prepare for the film.
- GoofsThere isn't, nor ever was, a railway station at New Quay, Wales.
- Quotes
William Killick: No harm will ever come to you. Not from me, not from anyone else. And while I'm here, no word of mine will ever hurt you.
Vera Phillips: Sounds like a vow.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojoUK: Top 10 Cillian Murphy Performances (2018)
- SoundtracksCareless Talk
Lyrics by John Maybury
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Published by Anlon Music Co
Produced by Angelo Badalamenti
Courtesy of Polydor UK Ltd
Under License from Universal Music Operations
Performed by Patrick Wolf
Featured review
This film has moments of cinematic beauty.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas excused from serving in active duty is doing his bit for the war effort producing bits of prose for some propaganda branch of government in Whitehall.
Thomas is portrayed as a freethinker believing in free love married to a woman with an equally demanding artistic streak and likewise with a penchant for extramarital romance. Thomas writing and reciting his poetry in systematic domestic mayhem throughout becomes somewhat priggish towards the end, resting somewhat uncomfortably on his society connections and pulling rank on a war veteran, who had shot up his house, and who was incidentally married to the woman he had been having an affair with.
The real story of this film is the love of two women, one (Keira Knightley) whose first love was Thomas (Matthew Rhys), the second (Sienna Miller) who is Thomas's wife. At times it reminds of The Singing Detective, as in very good television with slightly sinister overtones laid on top of scenes of surreal camp absurdity.
Thomas is portrayed as a freethinker believing in free love married to a woman with an equally demanding artistic streak and likewise with a penchant for extramarital romance. Thomas writing and reciting his poetry in systematic domestic mayhem throughout becomes somewhat priggish towards the end, resting somewhat uncomfortably on his society connections and pulling rank on a war veteran, who had shot up his house, and who was incidentally married to the woman he had been having an affair with.
The real story of this film is the love of two women, one (Keira Knightley) whose first love was Thomas (Matthew Rhys), the second (Sienna Miller) who is Thomas's wife. At times it reminds of The Singing Detective, as in very good television with slightly sinister overtones laid on top of scenes of surreal camp absurdity.
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- aidan-mann
- Jun 28, 2008
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- Ranh Giới Tình Yêu
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- Gross worldwide
- $4,297,711
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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