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Sylvia [2004]
 
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Sylvia [2004]
DVD ~ David Birkin
3.9 out of 5 stars  (11 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Actors: David Birkin, Alison Bruce, Amira Casar, Daniel Craig, Blythe Danner
  • Directors: Christine Jeffs
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jul 2004
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  (11 customer reviews)
  • DVD Features:
    • Main Language: English
    • Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
    • Featurette - 1. Behind-the-Scenes: Including interviews and on-set footage
    • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • ASIN: B00029RDT0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,403 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
The biting poetry and sad life of poet Sylvia Plath form the story of Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. This subtle but fascinating movie centres around Plath's relationship with poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), with whom she fell aggressively in love while a student at Cambridge. Their relationship proved passionate but rocky; many of Plath's fans blame the depression that eventually led her to suicide on Hughes's infidelity. Sylvia doesn't let Hughes off the hook, but it doesn't paint Plath as a helpless victim either. Paltrow's superb performance captures the poet's fierce jealousy and artistic ambition as much as her debilitating sorrow. The movie makes no big statements about Plath's poetry, letting the troubling details of her life tell their own compelling story. It also features Jared Harris, Blythe Danner and Michael Gambon, and the acting is outstanding all around. --Bret Fetzer

Synopsis
Director Christine Jeffs takes the heartbreaking story of writer Sylvia Plath's life and suicide (which has taken on mythological significance in certain literary circles) and renders it in a palette of surprising beauty. The film paints the story in dark greens, reds and the arresting blues of a recurring water motif. Dealing less with the professional lives of Plath and her husband Edward "Ted" Hughes, and delving more deeply into their notoriously tempestuous marriage, SYLVIA takes risks by attempting to portray what both Plath's family and Hughes (until just before his death in 1998) have remained extremely quiet about. John Brownlow's screenplay fingers no villain, painting both Hughes and Plath as flawed and complex.
Beginning in England in 1956, the film depicts American poet Sylvia (Gwyneth Paltrow)--who has a history of depression and suicide attempts--attending Cambridge University on a Fulbright Scholarship. While at a party, she meets Ted (Daniel Craig), a dashing student and fellow poet. The chemistry between them is electric, and they become immediately inseparable, their mutual love of verse the glue that holds them together. But Sylvia's success in her art gives way to jealous madness as other women lavish their attentions on Ted. Her subsequent descent into the deepest of depressions leads to her suicide in 1962. In this stirring film, Paltrow hits a high note in her career with her portrayal of Sylvia.

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