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Sylvia Movie Rating:  Impressively Performed
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| Gwyneth Paltrow is Sylvia Plath in this biopic about the late poet's difficult marriage to Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). To her credit, Paltrow does her best with the material; but for a film about the life of one of the most passionately read poets of the second half of the 20th century, that material is all surface. | |
| Both Paltrow and Craig's performances are impressive, but very little is learned about the inner demons that led Plath to suicide. She's rarely shown writing the work she's best known for creating, and her struggle with mental health comes across as simple petulance and jealousy over Hughes' real or imagined affairs. |
Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig.©2004 All Rights Reserved. |
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