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Sylvia
Directed by
Christine Jeffs
R
2003
1h 49m
Drama
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Romance
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6.3
37%
56%
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Story of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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Cast of Sylvia
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sylvia Plath
Daniel Craig
Ted Hughes
Jared Harris
Al Alvarez
Amira Casar
Assia Wevill
Andrew Havill
David Wevill
Sam Troughton
Tom Hadley-Clarke
Lucy Davenport
Doreen
Anthony Strachan
Michael Boddy
Blythe Danner
Aurelia Plath
Michael Gambon
Professor Thomas
Alison Bruce
Elizabeth
David Tristan Birkin
Morecambe
Sonia Ritter
Midwife
Julian Firth
James Michie
Derek Payne
Vicar
Christine Jeffs
Director
John Brownlow
Writer
Alison Owen
Producer
Sylvia Ratings & Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
A prestige picture that doesn't have a lot going for it beyond its serious intentions.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Paltrow does this role exceptionally well, but it is underwritten.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
So dark, somber, and lifeless is this well-intentioned biography.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Cinema and poetry aren't merely disparate art forms but largely incompatible ones.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Falls short of its goal.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
By choosing to make Hughes neither a monster nor sympathetic, the film likely will disappoint Plath acolytes while at the same time falling shy of being a revisionist interpretation of their relationship.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
An often painful, surprisingly illuminating and emotionally complex portrait of a woman who is ultimately as mysterious as her art.
Slate
David Edelstein
It's Bleak Chic.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Adds precisely nothing of breaking-news value to the Plath-Hughes annals.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
For all the actors' ability, Sylvia never develops a pulse.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
[Lacks] psychological depth and emotional resonance.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A coy, cautious film about a frank, fearless writer.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
For those who have read the poets and are curious about their lives, Sylvia provides illustrations for the biographies we carry in our minds.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The results are mixed, but noble.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Odd that a story of two such hot-burning lives as Plath and Hughes could leave us so cold.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Offers a wondrously illuminating artistic experience for its ideal audience -- people like me who know a little but not much about the explosive Plath-Hughes fusion of unbridled poetic temperaments in a tauntingly prosaic world.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Paltrow successfully transmits Plath's mental distress and her desperation to shake off a mounting depression.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
So suffocating, so lugubrious is the film that Sylvia didn't need to gas herself to death. Jeffs deprives her of oxygen.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
No one expects this to be the feel-good show of the year, but Jeffs' approach is so maudlin that by the end, Plath won't be the only one who's depressed.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Sylvia's emotional moods should swing from red-hot passion to icy rage. Instead, the movie runs the gamut from tepid to lukewarm.
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