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Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. It tells a story based on the real-life romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The film begins with their meeting at Cambridge in 1956 and ends with Sylvia Plath's ...
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
She portrayed poet Sylvia Plath in Sylvia (2003). She acted in the dramas Proof (2005), Infamous (2006), Two Lovers (2008), Country Strong (2010), and Contagion (2011) as well as the comedies Shallow Hal (2001), View from the Top (2003), Running with Scissors (2006), and Thanks for Sharing (2012).
The Bell Jar is more than just a bad movie. It's a bad movie based on a book that has meant much to many, and they will be bitterly disappointed." [5] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "would be ideal material for Ingmar Bergman, or more appropriately, since it is an American work, for the Woody Allen of Interiors. It ...
Emerald Fennell's tale of obsession culminates in perhaps the strangest sex scene ever committed to film.
In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
Briefly, the movie tap-dances into screwball-comedy territory. It would all be very funny, if Martha weren’t suffering so much. But The Room Next Door is on its way to place of tenderness and ...