Directed by:
Richard EyreCinematography:
Roger PrattComposer:
James HornerCast:
Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Nancy Carroll, Eleanor Bron, Kris Marshall, Samuel West, Juliet Aubrey (more)VOD (1)
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Biographical account of the life of existentialist author Iris Murdoch as recalled in the memoirs of her husband, Professor John Bayley. John (Hugh Bonneville) is a shy slightly goofy undergraduate at Oxford who falls for fellow student, the brilliant and charismatic Iris Murdoch (Kate Winslet). Against all the odds she returns his affection and so begins a love affair that will endure for over 40 years, amid the ups and downs of her achievements as a famous philosophical novelist. The film eventually flashes forward to the couple in older age, with John (Jim Broadbent) slowly realising that Iris (Dame Judi Dench) has a mental illness, one that threatens the existence of her personality, of the person he knows and loves. (Optimum Home Entertainment)
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Iris is another case of the depth of the subject being stronger than its cinematic execution. A colleague who is well versed in Iris Murdoch’s novels argued that my lack of knowledge of her work was the reason for my cold impression of the film. But I didn’t know anything about John Nash either and A Beautiful Mind moved me, because that film was able to show me his story in the most captivating way. This film is subtle and sophisticated, but it’s also as dull and unremarkable as Iris’s gradual departure into eternal darkness. If it weren’t for the great acting, it would have been nothing more than a bland and quickly forgettable made-for-TV movie.
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