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The Heart Of Me (film)
'' The Heart of Me '' is a 2002 United Kingdom, British period drama film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams. Set in London before and after World War II, it depicts the consequences of a woman's torrid affair with her sister's husband. The film is an adaptation of Rosamond Lehmann's 1953 novel ''The Echoing Grove''. Plot In 1934 after the funeral of her father, Madeleine, a proper and repressed well-to-do wife to Rickie, a man who obviously has more in common with his sister-in-law, Dinah, than with Madeleine, invites her free-spirited sister to stay with her and her husband Rickie in their elegant London home. The couple have a young son, Anthony. Madeleine is and has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister, but whose mother, Mrs. Burkett, acknowledges her faults but plainly admires her - though not as much as her departe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Thaddeus O'Sullivan (born 2 May 1947) is an Irish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Early career In the early eighties O'Sullivan was among a group of filmmakers who co-founded 'Spectre' a collective that included John Ellis (media academic), Simon Hartog, Anna Ambrose, Vera Neubauer, Phil Mulloy, Keith Griffiths and Michael Whyte. Filmography Awards *1990 won the ''Silver Rosa Camuna'' at the Bergamo Film Meeting for December Bride (1991) *1990 won the ''Special Prize of the Jury'' at the European Film Awards for December Bride (1991) *1990 won the ''FIPRESCI Prize'' at the Montréal World Film Festival Out-of-Competition for December Bride (1991) *1996 won the ''Audience Award'' at the Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for Nothing Personal (1995) References Further reading * Grunert, Andrea. "Défier les traditions par le sexe : ''December Bride'' de Thaddeus O'Sullivan", in: Penny Starfield (ed.) ''Femmes et pouvoir'', Corlet rance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |