RCA Country Legends - Sylvia

THE TRAGIC LIFE OF SYLVIA PLATH.

Advantages: Beautifully shot.
Disadvantages: Slow, sometimes a little dreary, didn't cover her poetry enough.

SYLVIA Released in 2003 under the genre Biography/Drama,'Sylvia' chronicles the turbulent life of Poet Sylvia Plath, and her seven year marriage to her husband Ted Hughes Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. The year is 1956 and the film opens with Sylvia talking about a dream she had. In the dream she had likened herself to a tree with branches outstretched. Each branch representing something about herself. One branch was her life, one branch, her husband, her children, and one branch, her glittering academic career. The leaves were her poems. As the dream closed the leaves had turned to brown and fluttered to the ground, and drifted away. This visceral dream seems to encapsulate Sylvia's state of mind in all it's complexities. - Such was Sylvia's ( Gwyneth Paltrow) melancholic ...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 04.03.2008 · Read full review
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Sylvia, an icon

Advantages: amazing acting and protrayal of her life
Disadvantages: some parts of her life were not focussed on

Sylvia is the movie made adaptation of the life and loss of the acclaimed poet Sylvi Plath. Directed by Christine Jeffs the film is a definate step forward from the last attempt at a film of her life, made a few decades ago. Gwenyth Paltrow plays the role of Sylvia, who meets Ted Hughes, another poet, they fall rather quickly into a passionate love, however the main stumbling blocks to their relationship is whether or not they can overcome the cnage in Sylvia's attitude and actions due to her suffereing of depression, also can Sylvia cope with living in the shadow of her husbands success with poetry. Ted Hughes received more praise for his poetry than Sylvia, whose first released book Collusus received less than favourable reviews. As the marriage disintergrates, especially after the birth of their children, and move to ...

rachieb123 12.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sylvia (DVD)

Sylvia vs Gwyneth

Advantages: Good acting, excellent performances.
Disadvantages: Expected a little more of Plath's background

Viewers drawn to this film will probably already know, to an extent anyway, of the life, marriage and death of Sylvia Plath. I imagine or I suspect that many who have heard of Plath and are thus interested in seeing this film will know of the tragedy and the darkness that this film will ultimately portray. For those coming to view Sylvia, with no prior knowledge of the poet's life, they will ultimately learn of her later life, marriage and subsequent tragic death. I am not giving away the plot here, I'm not giving away the ending of the film, I'm simply stating facts, this film is all about the journey of a life, the ending is not of no consequence but just inevitable. The film begins from the time that the American born Plath was at Cambridge where she meets her soon to be husband, Ted Hughes. They are both poets and are ...

kitty17 14.08.2004 · Read full review
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