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The edge of love - Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, John Maybury

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Wife. Husband. Friend. Lover.

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women.

Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan (Matthew Rhys) were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films, and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin (Sienna Miller). Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship.

Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale, set in London and the majestic Welsh countryside.

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Film Dylan Thomas biography relationship poet Wales affair adultery World War II sex love

Persons of interest

Simon Armstrong .... Wilfred Hosgood
Paul Brooke .... Mr Justice Singleton
Huw Ceredig .... John Patrick
Richard Clifford .... Alistair Graham
Richard Dillane .... Lieutenant Colonel David Talbot Rice
Rachel Essex .... Mel
Karl Johnson .... Dai Fred
Keira Knightley .... Vera Phillips
Anne Lambton .... Anita Shenkin
Raymond Llewellyn .... Dewi Ianthe
Alastair Mackenzie .... Anthony Devas
Neville Malcolm .... Big Joe
Graham 'Suggs' McPherson .... The Crooner
Sienna Miller .... Caitlin MacNamara
Cillian Murphy .... William Killick
Anthony O'Donnell .... Jack Lloyd
Jonathan Phillips .... John Eldridge
Matthew Rhys .... Dylan Thomas
Camilla Rutherford .... Nicolette
Lisa Stansfield .... Ruth Williams
Nick Stringer .... PC Williams
Sharman Macdonald .... Screenwriter
John Maybury .... Director

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Theatrical report

The edge of love is a lovely British wartime relationship drama. I'm not into relationship dramas (they'd take away my Bloke ID card if I was) but I'm sure that that aspect is done well. There's plenty of sex, talking, unrequited love, adultery and more girlie giggles than you can shake a stick at. I am into British wartime dramas (that's how I got my Bloke ID card) and this one is done really well. There's all the claustrophobic darkness of the Blitz, desperately horny men in uniform and psychotic soldiers on every corner.

As for Dylan Thomas, well, he is one of the four main characters but he could've been a fictional one for all that you came to understand him. The foursome was brought together by the war and it overshadows their stories (individual and combined) to such a degree that once the War In London section ends (the first three acts), so does the most interesting part of the film. After that it's all domestic dreariness in Wales (and Wales does a big line in dreary).

You'd need to be a dedicated Dylan Thomas/relationship fan to enjoy this film.

The Dylan Thomas biography movie The edge of love is directed by John Maybury and stars Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys.