Enduring Love

'Enduring Love' manages to be grip the viewers attention right from the very beginning. We are given some wonderful shots of the beautiful British landscape at the centre of which there is couple on a picnic. However a hot-air balloon... Full review

This movie had no substance to it at all. My friend kept wanting to leave, but the optimist that I am, kept thinking it would get better, but it never did! Then the real clencher in disppointment was that it was... Full review

It’s not very often that a thriller comes along that’s well-acted, subtly written, and brilliantly shot. This film satisfies in all areas. It’s not perfect in all areas, but it satisfies. As far as the story goes, it’s very original. How... Full review

Stalkers are creepy, true -- and more so when they have apocalyptic grooming habits and hail from the London slums -- but not all stalker stories make your skin crawl, some, like Enduring Love, just make your butt hurt. I don't... Full review

This is a fascinating movie about a man's journey to reconcile his inner demons and the disappointment felt when we realize how fragile we all are. Jon is a professor and his girlfriend Claire is a sculptor who live together and... Full review

This a grown up thriller. It will challenge you and return again and again to your thoughts afterwards. The acting is superb. The film makers I feel have improved on the book, making the central characters more real, less self obcessed... Full review

This movie has nothing compelling about it. There is no real tension buildt, no suspense, and no "wow" factor. The initial scene is the most interesting and then its all downhill from there. There is an intersting moral dilema at the... Full review

It was painful to watch the lead actor, lose everything in his life because he didn't have the guts to face down & turn away this random loser who by chance comes into his life. This guy has a career on... Full review

A man stalking another man, after they both let go of a runaway hot air balloon. Great set-up but terrible follow through. If it had went in another direction instead of a sexual one, it may have been a more interesting... Full review

If I could sum up Enduring Love in a word, it would be "unusual". Not in the sense of "bizarre", but just very "unique"; it doesn't do many things the way a "normal" film does. The first highly unusual aspect... Full review

The scenes where these two struggle to establish some kind of shared reality are consistently tense and intriguing, though they don't prevent Samantha Morton from walking off with the film despite her thinly written part. Everyone involved in the project is alive to the comedy and drama between the lines in British small-talk, and this helps them shape the characters into memorably contrasted archetypes without sacrificing detail. ... Full Review

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, "Enduring Love" is a frustrating film that abandons the promise of intrigue for something ultimately quite ordinary. Daniel Craig is particularly good as he attempts to reason the events of the day. ... Full Review

Verdict: A trio of superb performances ensure Enduring Love engages heart as well as head. Enduring Love is just as impressive, exploring similar themes but sparing more sympathy for its bewildered protagonist. ... Full Review

Apart from Ifans, Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton are excellent, too, in more conventional roles, and Roger Michell's direction seems to improve with every film he makes. The ending aside, this is a gripping story of obsession, in which Rhys Ifans gives his best screen performance yet as the deranged and seemingly unstoppable Jed. ... Full Review

Enduring Love starts with Joe (Daniel Craig) and his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton) in a rolling field, settling in for a picnic on a nice summer day. This other man, Jed played by Rhys Ifans, is obviously suffering from some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder, as he constantly appears with Joe and is also trying to make sense of what happened, but he takes things too far and feels that God brought he and Joe together for a reason, and that reason is love. ... Full Review

Although the script is solely credited to Chereau and Anne-Louise Trividic, who collaborated with Chereau on his four previous films, its narrative bears a striking similarity to the plot of both Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love" and the film that... ... Full Article

READERS who admire Ian McEwan's description of the ballooning accident at the beginning of Enduring Love will have immediate affinity for the opening pages of Gillian Slovo's latest novel. ... Full Article

Directors UK, which represents over 3,500 members, held its first AGM last Thursday at BAFTA. At the meeting, seven new board members were named. The seven members are: Anna Davies ( Wife Swap, Extraordinary People ), Piers Haggard ( Quatermass,... ... Full Article

Although not the best movie of the week, Anna M comes with what may be the best performance of the year. Isabelle Carré brings a raw emotion to this French language film that elevates it from a so-so psychological drama... ... Full Article

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