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Tom And Viv [1994] [VHS]

VHS ~ Willem Dafoe
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Actors: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace
  • Directors: Brian Gilbert
  • Writers: Adrian Hodges, Michael Hastings
  • Producers: Harvey Kass, John Kay, Marc Samuelson, Miles A. Copeland III, Paul Colichman
  • Format: Colour, PAL, Full Screen
  • Language English
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • VHS Release Date: 14 Mar 1995
  • Run Time: 122 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00004CP9C
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,440 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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A beautiful young woman meets American student T.S. Eliot and falls in love. What follows is a passionate love affair and a rise to fame and fortune. Based on a play by Michael Hastings.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Grim but revealing, 10 Oct 2008
By Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am surprised that this film has not yet so far made it on to Region 2 DVD; this review is based on watching the video. As ever, I am amused by some of the more stern and unforgiving reviews elsewhere on Amazon; for some people nothing is ever good enough and too many people just cannot wait " to put the boot in" and damn a perfectly serious, well-crafted, if rather grim little movie. If you are looking for a feel-good, relaxing film - this isn't it, but I found it intelligent and sensitive in the manner that it portrays poor Viv sympathetically and Eliot's heroic devotion to her and his marriage vows. It is certainly valuable, too, in the manner that it illuminates Eliot's poetry; links between his circumstances and their married life are subtly established when the dialogue echoes famous lines, or excerpts from the poems sparingly comment upon the content of the film. Eliot is expertly embodied by Willem Dafoe; he comes across as more English than the English, complete with a rather (deliberately exaggerated?) clipped English accent and a permanent case of emotional constipation which found its release in the verse. As Eliot says in the film, poetry is expression "free from emotion" - and that really shows here. Miranda Richardson gives a chilling and touching performance as Viv, bringing out her qualities as well as her frightening afflictions; we realise to what degree theirs was a relationship of mutual dependence - though I would have liked more on Ezra Pound's influence over Eliot's final drafts. The film is dark-hued yet sometimes funny. Apart from its intrinsic value, it is very useful as a teaching aid, helping my students to understand the historical context of the texts we are studying and the biographical circumstances behind the verse. So even if others claim that the film taught them nothing, I have to say that it enhanced our appreciation of a great poet.
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