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THE EDGE OF LOVE

Reviewed by Catherine Balavage

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Region 4 / Out now

Featuring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys

I have always though of the poet Dylan Thomas as a drunk. After watching this film, I see him as a drunk, sponger, liar and a creep.

The story is the true account of Dylan Thomas and the two women in his life Vera Philips and his wife Caitlin MacNamara. Making the love story even more complicated is Vera's eventual husband the handsome Captain William Killick.

Set in war time London. John Maybury is excellent at evoking the 1940's era. The film feels claustrophobic. All death, uncertainty and bedsits. Later on, with William at war, the menage a trois decamps to the welsh countryside. Caitlin and Dylan sponge of Vera. Coming across as spoilt children, unable to look after themselves or their children.

Dylan and Caitlan come across as very unlikable characters. As selfish and horrid as each other but Rhys and Miller play them well enough for you not to hate them.

The friendship between Vera and Caitlin is racked by doubt and jealousy but it is lovely to see a tender and loving friendship between two women.

Keira Knightley gives a wonderful performance. It should have been in the posters; Knightley Sings! If that is her real voice I am very impressed. her welsh accent is good and she looks beautiful. Her mother, Sharman MacDonald, wrote the script.

Dylan Thomas comes across as an awful character. He is played by the handsome Matthew Rhys, who put on weight to play him. Rhys 'does a De niro'! At the start of the film Dylan is seen asking Vera for money. Dylan is portrayed in the film as disloyal, selfish, lecherous. It is hard to know how he could have had both these women in his life, he constantly cheats on his wife though she is exactly the same. Frequently drunk, sponging off others, unable to even look after her own children.

We see shots of Knightley and Miller sharing baths together, sharing a bed and being tender with each other. This did nothing for me but should keep the male audience happy.

Over all this was a well-told, well-acted and beautifully shot film. Do see it. Knightley sings!

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