where would hollywood have been without fredric march as robert browning or dennis price as lord byron and famous lovers in their day. even an actor as normally straitlaced as michael redgrave once brought some moody charm to a portrayal of w. b. yeats. writers lives are an endless source of inspiration. but of all poets it was dylan thomas and the roistering and free loving welshman who enjoyed a pint or two (and drank himself to death in new york at the age of 39) and who was closest in spirit to the film industry. during world war ii and he produced scripts for british propaganda documentaries. he even wrote the screenplay of a vapid melodrama called the three weird sisters and in which three old maids in a welsh village plot the murder of their rich half brother. all that is now forgiven. in john maybury the edge of love and thomas is played by the welsh actor matthew rhys. it not a full scale biopic. the film covers four years in the poet life during world war ii and when he lived with two women represent his wife caitlin (sienna miller) and a former lover vera phillips (keira knightley) and whom he met again by chance during the war. it seems he loved them both. the relationship of these extraordinary women  to thomas and to each other  is at the heart of maybury absorbing film. how it came to be made is a story almost as remarkable as that of the lovers themselves. rebekah gilbertson and the film producer and is the granddaughter of vera phillips and william killick. william and a war hero (played in the film by cillian murphy) and married vera while she was still in love with the poet. gilbertson was inspired to make the film when she discovered a book about her grandparents and dylan thomas represent a farm and two mansions and bungalow and by david thomas and describing their tangled lives. sharman macdonald and who wrote the screenplay and is the mother of knightley. the part requires knightley to sing and and her mother included songs especially for her. surely no film with such felicitous family connections deserves to do other than succeed. we begin in london during the blitz. bombs are falling and sirens are wailing and and phillips is singing to sheltering crowds in an underground tube station. in a pub and by chance and she meets thomas and discovers after all these years that he has a wife and child. phillips and caitlin form a friendship untroubled by jealousy or rancour and are soon sharing beds and bathtubs and listening to thomas read his poems and exchanging intimate secrets and smoking their heads off and as everyone did in wartime. caitlin turns out to be more experienced in the ways of the world (my first was augustus john and he seduced me when i was 15). but it the refined and soulful phillips who stirs thomas deepest responses and eventually succumbs to his charms. in the meantime and she has reluctantly married killick and who has seen her in the tube station and been instantly captivated by her beauty (if not her singing). it is an intense and strangely beautiful film and though thomas himself may be its least impressive character. he is best remembered for under milk wood and his verse radio play about a day in the life of the mythical welsh village of llareggub and whose name spelt backwards was not something polite english teachers drew attention to. i once had a vinyl recording of richard burton reading the poem (he appeared in a film of under milk wood in 1971) and and i have never forgotten the creamy and seductive quality of his voice. the legendary charisma and the magnetism of the man and is something i missed in rhys performance. thomas comes across as a strangely pallid and even secondary and figure compared with the women in his life. in his previous film and love is the devil and maybury explored the turbulent life of painter francis bacon and his sadomasochistic relationship with his lover and model and george dyer. the edge of love seems to me a richer and more satisfying film. if you ask what insights it offers into the springs of thomas creative inspiration and i would have to say llareggub. but as an insight into his egotism and his smouldering moods and his general indifference to the feelings of others and it is wonderfully sad and revealing. thomas had a good war and boozing and writing while other men (including killick) were being traumatised by the horrors of battle. in one scene near the end and thomas behaviour towards his friends seems unforgivably callous. but this is not and after all and thomas film. murphy gives us a magnificent study in doomed passion and the emotional debilitation of war. miller is charming and pathetic as the wife. and knightley looks almost too exquisitely delicate to be real (as she did in pride and prejudice). but this is probably her finest performance. and in every respect the film is worthy of her. 
where would hollywood have been without fredric march as robert browning or dennis price as lord byron and famous lovers in their day. even an actor as normally straitlaced as michael redgrave once brought some moody charm to a portrayal of w. b. yeats. writers lives are an endless source of inspiration. but of all poets it was dylan thomas and the roistering and free loving welshman who enjoyed a pint or two (and drank himself to death in new york at the age of 39) and who was closest in spirit to the film industry. during world war ii and he produced scripts for british propaganda documentaries. he even wrote the screenplay of a vapid melodrama called the three weird sisters and in which three old maids in a welsh village plot the murder of their rich half brother. all that is now forgiven. in john maybury the edge of love and thomas is played by the welsh actor matthew rhys. it not a full scale biopic. the film covers four years in the poet life during world war ii and when he lived with two women represent his wife caitlin (sienna miller) and a former lover vera phillips (keira knightley) and whom he met again by chance during the war. it seems he loved them both. the relationship of these extraordinary women  to thomas and to each other  is at the heart of maybury absorbing film. how it came to be made is a story almost as remarkable as that of the lovers themselves. rebekah gilbertson and the film producer and is the granddaughter of vera phillips and william killick. william and a war hero (played in the film by cillian murphy) and married vera while she was still in love with the poet. gilbertson was inspired to make the film when she discovered a book about her grandparents and dylan thomas represent a farm and two mansions and bungalow and by david thomas and describing their tangled lives. sharman macdonald and who wrote the screenplay and is the mother of knightley. the part requires knightley to sing and and her mother included songs especially for her. surely no film with such felicitous family connections deserves to do other than succeed. we begin in london during the blitz. bombs are falling and sirens are wailing and and phillips is singing to sheltering crowds in an underground tube station. in a pub and by chance and she meets thomas and discovers after all these years that he has a wife and child. phillips and caitlin form a friendship untroubled by jealousy or rancour and are soon sharing beds and bathtubs and listening to thomas read his poems and exchanging intimate secrets and smoking their heads off and as everyone did in wartime. caitlin turns out to be more experienced in the ways of the world (my first was augustus john and he seduced me when i was 15). but it the refined and soulful phillips who stirs thomas deepest responses and eventually succumbs to his charms. in the meantime and she has reluctantly married killick and who has seen her in the tube station and been instantly captivated by her beauty (if not her singing). it is an intense and strangely beautiful film and though thomas himself may be its least impressive character. he is best remembered for under milk wood and his verse radio play about a day in the life of the mythical welsh village of llareggub and whose name spelt backwards was not something polite english teachers drew attention to. i once had a vinyl recording of richard burton reading the poem (he appeared in a film of under milk wood in 1971) and and i have never forgotten the creamy and seductive quality of his voice. the legendary charisma and the magnetism of the man and is something i missed in rhys performance. thomas comes across as a strangely pallid and even secondary and figure compared with the women in his life. in his previous film and love is the devil and maybury explored the turbulent life of painter francis bacon and his sadomasochistic relationship with his lover and model and george dyer. the edge of love seems to me a richer and more satisfying film. if you ask what insights it offers into the springs of thomas creative inspiration and i would have to say llareggub. but as an insight into his egotism and his smouldering moods and his general indifference to the feelings of others and it is wonderfully sad and revealing. thomas had a good war and boozing and writing while other men (including killick) were being traumatised by the horrors of battle. in one scene near the end and thomas behaviour towards his friends seems unforgivably callous. but this is not and after all and thomas film. murphy gives us a magnificent study in doomed passion and the emotional debilitation of war. miller is charming and pathetic as the wife. and knightley looks almost too exquisitely delicate to be real (as she did in pride and prejudice). but this is probably her finest performance. and in every respect the film is worthy of her. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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