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W.E extras:
- The Making of W.E
- UK Premiere Red Carpet Featurette
- Interview with Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy
- Image Gallery
- Trailer & TV Spots
- The Making of W.E
- UK Premiere Red Carpet Featurette
- Interview with Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy
- Image Gallery
- Trailer & TV Spots
Amazon.co.uk Review
Madonna presents a passionate tale of the search for love and the meaning of happiness in W.E., a rich portrayal of two strong women resolved to find romance. Caught in a loveless Manhattan marriage, abused and frustrated Wally (Abbie Cornish – Limitless, Bright Star) obsesses over Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough – Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham), the stylish American divorcee who captured the heart of Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) who abdicated the throne as King of England. As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis spends the rest of her life in the glare of celebrity exile. Inspired by the Duchess’ determination to pursue love in the face of social exile, Wally escapes into the arms of another man (Oscar Isaac - Drive) whose love sets her free.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Wallis ("Wally") Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) of New York City, is stuck in a loveless marriage to a philandering doctor. She's obsessed with the story of Wallis Simpson and Edward VII (called "W.E.") and wonders what it was like to be so loved that a man would give up his crown for you. The movie jumps between the lives of the two Wallises following the royal romance and the end of Wally's marriage.
Visually, there's a lot to like: The sets are elaborate, the costumes elegant, and the 30s period is reproduced in lovely detail. The movie falls flat, however, for several reasons: The story jumps so quickly and randomly between the past and present that it's chaotic (and too much like "Julie and Julia") and there's no real connection between the two stories. None of the leading characters is likable, the royals being spoiled and self-centered and the NYC folks being relentlessly dreary. No new insights are given to the famous W.E. union and neither the royal story nor the modern story is developed in depth. None of the actors who play royals look much like their counterparts and, worst of all, the movie is just too grim.
Director Madonna wanted to make a story about Wallis and Edward, but when she added the modern day Wallis' story, she watered down both and made neither interesting.
Visually, there's a lot to like: The sets are elaborate, the costumes elegant, and the 30s period is reproduced in lovely detail. The movie falls flat, however, for several reasons: The story jumps so quickly and randomly between the past and present that it's chaotic (and too much like "Julie and Julia") and there's no real connection between the two stories. None of the leading characters is likable, the royals being spoiled and self-centered and the NYC folks being relentlessly dreary. No new insights are given to the famous W.E. union and neither the royal story nor the modern story is developed in depth. None of the actors who play royals look much like their counterparts and, worst of all, the movie is just too grim.
Director Madonna wanted to make a story about Wallis and Edward, but when she added the modern day Wallis' story, she watered down both and made neither interesting.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Any film with Madonna involved in instantly gets slated by critics,but this was surprisingly good.Kept me hooked throughout,i have read reviews where people say its confusing having the two storylines going on,well tell me where it was confusing because i kept up with the story all the way through.Superb locations,excellent choice of actors and blinding soundtrack.Well done Madonna!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
***SPOILERS***
W.E.althy people. Beautiful people. W.E.ary people.
The year is 1998. Wally Winthrop, a rich, married and miserable New Yorker, finds solace in an exhibition recently opened at Sotheby's celebrating the circa 1930's romance of then Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson, an American woman for whose love he forfeited his throne.
And by that feeble thread hangs this hollow bauble of a film. From Cartier jewelry boxes and bottles of Chanel No. 5 to repeated flashes of uncorked Moët, every frame is a page from Vanity Fair. The present-day Wally seemingly exists for no other purpose than to justify these gratuitous advertisements: she once had a job at Sotheby's, yet even the unhappy marriage for which she gave it up has not dulled her eye for the finer things. Indeed, when she's not moping about her impossibly posh apartment she's moping about in Sotheby's, bringing herself to tears as she covets the luxurious artifacts from Wallis's and Edward's life together. And once their romance is (rather quickly) established as the excuse for Wally to indulge her predilection, it only takes one awful dialogue - there are many of these, but the one that follows is perhaps the most audacious (and therefore the worst) - to drag the film from rather absurd into quite absurd: a security guard from Sotheby's has developed a crush on Wally, and he approaches her one day after an auction:
Guard: So are you or aren't you?
Wally: Huh?
Guard: Going to bid on something?
Wally: Oh god no!
Guard: Why?
Wally: Too nerve-wrecking.
And that's as tense as it gets, I'm afraid. No wait. The next day Wally bids $10,000 on a pair of Wallis Simpson's gloves. Some pantomime spousal abuse is then shoe-horned in to give Wally's story some gravitas. As for Prince Edward, his devotion to Wallis Simpson becomes so slavish that it's embarrassing. Historically accurate or artistic license? I haven't bothered to check, but it's cringingly insipid either way.
In conclusion, this is an altogether pointless film in that, when it isn't advertising in its artistically artless way, it depicts improbable persons suffering unbelievable traumas.
Clearly intended as a stopgap for Sex and the City 3.
W.E.althy people. Beautiful people. W.E.ary people.
The year is 1998. Wally Winthrop, a rich, married and miserable New Yorker, finds solace in an exhibition recently opened at Sotheby's celebrating the circa 1930's romance of then Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson, an American woman for whose love he forfeited his throne.
And by that feeble thread hangs this hollow bauble of a film. From Cartier jewelry boxes and bottles of Chanel No. 5 to repeated flashes of uncorked Moët, every frame is a page from Vanity Fair. The present-day Wally seemingly exists for no other purpose than to justify these gratuitous advertisements: she once had a job at Sotheby's, yet even the unhappy marriage for which she gave it up has not dulled her eye for the finer things. Indeed, when she's not moping about her impossibly posh apartment she's moping about in Sotheby's, bringing herself to tears as she covets the luxurious artifacts from Wallis's and Edward's life together. And once their romance is (rather quickly) established as the excuse for Wally to indulge her predilection, it only takes one awful dialogue - there are many of these, but the one that follows is perhaps the most audacious (and therefore the worst) - to drag the film from rather absurd into quite absurd: a security guard from Sotheby's has developed a crush on Wally, and he approaches her one day after an auction:
Guard: So are you or aren't you?
Wally: Huh?
Guard: Going to bid on something?
Wally: Oh god no!
Guard: Why?
Wally: Too nerve-wrecking.
And that's as tense as it gets, I'm afraid. No wait. The next day Wally bids $10,000 on a pair of Wallis Simpson's gloves. Some pantomime spousal abuse is then shoe-horned in to give Wally's story some gravitas. As for Prince Edward, his devotion to Wallis Simpson becomes so slavish that it's embarrassing. Historically accurate or artistic license? I haven't bothered to check, but it's cringingly insipid either way.
In conclusion, this is an altogether pointless film in that, when it isn't advertising in its artistically artless way, it depicts improbable persons suffering unbelievable traumas.
Clearly intended as a stopgap for Sex and the City 3.
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