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A red hot-air balloon floating gracefully over the green English countryside leads to a shocking death in Enduring Love, an eerie and hypnotic movie based on a novel by Ian McEwan. Two men tried and failed to help, and afterwards Joe (Daniel Craig, Sylvia, The Mother) finds himself being stalked by the hungry-eyed Jed (Rhys Ifans, Vanity Fair, Human Nature). Like a gangly wraith, Jed follows Joe and begs him to recognize the passionate love Jed feels certain was sparked by the balloon accident. Jed's obsession crawls into Joe's head and his life, clawing at his happy relationship with his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar, Minority Report) and derailing Joe into an obsessive spiral of his own. Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Craig and Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Enduring Love [DVD] [2004]
On a positive note, the film's cinematography is both stunning, captivating, and alone makes the film worth watching. As do both Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans' performances as Joe and Jed respectively. However, the change of Clarissa's profession from Keats' scholar to sculptor striks a discordant note early on which never, for those who have read McEwan's masterpiece, never stops vibrating and allows you to be carried away by the cinematopraphy and above performances.
The main problem with the film is that the omission of Joe's first person narration, and Jed's letters (amongst numerous other missing pieces of the original puzzle)leaves it almost devoiod of the central frission between the three grand meta-narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: science, art and religion. Without the discordancy between the three, and Joe's overriding scientific perspcective in filtering what happens, the film loses the sense of obsession, and how interpretation and perspective are ultimately subjective. All of which help to make reading the novel such a rewarding experience.
Nevertheless, if you have not read the novel or/ and have no intention of reading it, I would thoroughly recommend you watch the film as its beauty alone will make it worth the time taken to do so.
On a positive note, the film's cinematography is both stunning, captivating, and alone makes the film worth watching. As do both Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans' performances as Joe and Jed respectively. However, the change of Clarissa's profession from Keats' scholar to sculptor striks a discordant note early on which never, for those who have read McEwan's masterpiece, never stops vibrating and allows you to be carried away by the cinematopraphy and above performances.
The main problem with the film is that the omission of Joe's first person narration, and Jed's letters (amongst numerous other missing pieces of the original puzzle)leaves it almost devoiod of the central frission between the three grand meta-narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: science, art and religion. Without the discordancy between the three, and Joe's overriding scientific perspcective in filtering what happens, the film loses the sense of obsession, and how interpretation and perspective are ultimately subjective. All of which help to make reading the novel such a rewarding experience.
Nevertheless, if you have not read the novel or/ and have no intention of reading it, I would thoroughly recommend you watch the film as its beauty alone will make it worth the time taken to do so.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I always thought that Enduring Love would be a difficult novel to film.
The cast is excellent especially Rhys Ifans as Jed.
Daniel Craig as Joe is also great but his character is much less sympathetic than in Ian McEwan’s book.
The music is superbly eerie and very atmospheric. On its own Enduring Love stands up as quite a different type of thriller than we get nowadays. However, if you have read the book you may well be disappointed.
The cast is excellent especially Rhys Ifans as Jed.
Daniel Craig as Joe is also great but his character is much less sympathetic than in Ian McEwan’s book.
The music is superbly eerie and very atmospheric. On its own Enduring Love stands up as quite a different type of thriller than we get nowadays. However, if you have read the book you may well be disappointed.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
First of all this is a an OK thriller. But this isn't Enduring Love. All of the science and reasons for Parry's obsession are extracted, an extra character is added for absolutely no reason, the end of the book is changed to a happy crowd-pleasing affair so you're eventually left with an alright thriller with vaguely homophobic overtones. It's a shame really, as Craig makes for a magnificent Joe Rose, Rhys Ifans is wonderfulyl creepy as Jed Parry, and the direction is good. Like a said, an OK thriller, but not Enduring Love.
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good viewing
this film was slow to get going but then i felt it picked up at a steady pace. i felt the performance by rhys ifans was great he really got into the character and was a joy to... Read more
Published 23 days ago by scorpio
THIS IS A MARVELOUS BRITISH THRILLER WITH A SPARKLING CAST!!
Enduring Love is an alarming and Genuinely Uncommon British thriller with an artistic cast delivering the picture perfect proformances for their roles!! Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elizabeth
God only knows what I'd be without you.
Joe and Claire are about to share a romantic picnic when a stricken hot air balloon drifts into the field. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Spike Owen
Worth a watch
I watched this film after reading the book and I think I would have enjoyed more if I hadn't read the book beforehand as quite a lot of plot details have been changed or missed... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Charlotte112
Such a shame - an opportunity missed.
This film was a deep disappointment to me, having only just finished the book I was happy to see it was on TV. Read more
Published 22 months ago by debbiela
Destined to send a chill down your spine but misses some of the book's...
For any production team it was going to be a challenge to create an equally successful film to the much acclaimed novel. Read more
Published on 26 May 2010 by Reader, I Read It
Contrived and pretentious
I haven't read the book so can't compare the film with it. But I can honestly say this is the worst film I have ever made it to the end of - a shocking waste of a good cast. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2010 by Lendrick
Fans of the Book Steer Clear
This film adapts Ian McEwan's novel of the same name. Which follows Joe Rose(Daniel Craig) as he tries to recover from the shock of a ballooning accident, which is compounded by... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2010 by JJG
Enduring Love DVD
Excellent film - would highly recommend it. Maybe a bit slow at the beginning but stay with it - the story grows.
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Marmalade
Enduring Love
Again I think this is Daniel Craig at his best, he's the ultimate professional in his business I throughly enjoyed this film.
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by V. A. Couceiro
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