Country: UK
Year: 2008
Duration: 110'
London, 1941. During an air-raid the poet Dylan Thomas meets his
childhood sweetheart, Vera Phillips, after ten years. She’s a singer, while
he’s churning out propaganda scripts for government. The ancient
passion revives, but the poet is now married with Caitlin and Vera
has a relationship with the soldier William Killick. In spite of the love
rivality, the two women become friends. The situation gets more
complicated when William is posted abroad and Vera moves to
Wales with Dylan and Caitlin.
“With Love Is the Devil I tried to avoid the usual pitfalls of biopic
language, and also The Edge of Love isn’t a usual biopic; it’s about
a four-year period during the Second World War, and Dylan happens to
be a character. His poetry does appear in the film, almost like a Greek
chorus echoing elements of the storyline, but I don’t think it’s really a
film about Dylan Thomas, it’s about the women and their relationships
– the close bond that forms between them is damaged almost by their
commitment to the men in their lives.”
Biography
film director
John Maybury
John Maybury (London, UK, 1958), painter and writer, began shooting films in the end of 1970s in and around London’s punk scene. Alongside experimental films, he also directed promotional videos for major recording artists, including The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cyndi Lauper, Morrissey and Sinead O’Connor. He directed also several features such as, in 1992, Man to Man with Tilda Swinton, main actress also in Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies, that in 1994 won the Teddy as Best Documentary Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1996 he wrote and directed Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, which won the Michael
Powell Award for Best New British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival
FILMOGRAFIA
The Value of Ignorance (mm, 1989), Man to Man (1992), Premonition of Absurd Perversion in Sexual Personae, Part I (1992), Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (mm, doc., 1994), Genetron (1996) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (Love Is the Devil, 1998), The Jacket (id., 2005), Rome (ep. Death Mask, De Patre Vostro; Roma, TV, 2007), The Edge of Love (2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director John Maybury
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sharman Macdonald
fotografia/cinematography Jonathan Freeman
montaggio/film editing Emma E. Hickox
scenografia/production design Alan MacDonald
costumi/costume design April Ferry
musica/music Angelo Badalamenti
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Keira Knightley (Vera Phillips), Sienna Miller (Caitlin McNamara), Cillian Murphy (William Killick), Matthew Rhys (Dylan Thomas), Simon Armstrong (Wilfred Hosgood), Richard Clifford (Alistair Graham), Anne Lambton (Anita Shenkin), Camilla Rutherford (Nicolette), Lisa Stansfield (Ruth Williams), Rachel Essex (Mel)
produttori/producers Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radclyffe
produzione/production BBC Films, Capitol Films, Prescience Film Fund, Rainy Day Films, Sarah Radclyffe Productions Limited, Wales Creative IP Fund
vendita all’estero/world sales Capitol Films
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sharman Macdonald
fotografia/cinematography Jonathan Freeman
montaggio/film editing Emma E. Hickox
scenografia/production design Alan MacDonald
costumi/costume design April Ferry
musica/music Angelo Badalamenti
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Keira Knightley (Vera Phillips), Sienna Miller (Caitlin McNamara), Cillian Murphy (William Killick), Matthew Rhys (Dylan Thomas), Simon Armstrong (Wilfred Hosgood), Richard Clifford (Alistair Graham), Anne Lambton (Anita Shenkin), Camilla Rutherford (Nicolette), Lisa Stansfield (Ruth Williams), Rachel Essex (Mel)
produttori/producers Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radclyffe
produzione/production BBC Films, Capitol Films, Prescience Film Fund, Rainy Day Films, Sarah Radclyffe Productions Limited, Wales Creative IP Fund
vendita all’estero/world sales Capitol Films