The Wings of the Dove

1997 "A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist."
7.1| 1h42m| R| en| More Info
Released: 07 November 1997 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
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Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

Genre

Drama, Romance

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Director

Iain Softley

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Miramax

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Micitype Pretty Good
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
toxmibazar Great beauty, great visuals and also very good drama and a positive love triangle. A triangle that says a lot about manner, honor, the relativity of being right and wrong. It's about how conflicts, inner conflicts, can be. How can impact you.The life is complicate. The established rules for right and wrong are far from to be true. It also talk how people change. How the man who doesn't love the girl, finally couldn't not love her. When you go through new feeling experience you'll change. You will not comes back. There is no restore point in feeling.This film, depicts how complicated human drama is. How complex its emotions is and How dynamic he/she is. I think this film enlighten the viewer to take a deeper look to complex human interactions and how simple are our religion and established norms and stereotypes.
Red_Identity Period pieces of this sort, well, just not my type of films. I do love Atonement though, although that really proves to be the exception. But this one wasn't the usual stuffy period melodrama, the writing and direction prove o be really restrained and elegant while still being sensitive and graceful. The performances are also fantastic. Bonham Carter really should do more grounded roles like this, she's amazing here, showing how subtle she can be when the part calls for it. Alison Elliot is also magnificent, even threatening to steal the whole film. This actress deserves to be so much bigger, if her talent here is any indication.
zfiany This is a movie which might be overlooked for the romantic side of it because some people tend to judge a movie as trash if it is about romance. Well, I agree but not all romantic movies are the same. There are romantic movies that have messages which go beyond the emotion of love to the twin emotions jealousy, envy, sexual desires, respect, humanity, sacred love, pain and many others. All these feelings you can still experience in a romantic movie cooked well.Wings of dove is a movie with a plot and actually there is a part in the middle of the movie where if you pay attention carefully you might be able to understand what's going on before the story starts revealing its chapters. Actors are great; Helena Bonham Carter is indeed good in this role and Alison Elliotte is just as good and even better. Linus Roache also knows how to exhibit his transmitting emotions in a brilliant way. He knew how to play the difference which is a thin line between love and desire. You only have to guess whom he loved and whom he desired.
IndieSpirit92 Directed by Iain Softley, "The Wings of the Dove" is a period drama set in England, which tells the story of Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter), a beautiful, wealthy, woman who wishes to marry a common journalist, Merton Densher (Linus Roache.) Their love is forbidden by society, until a young heiress from America (Alison Elliot), enters their lives, and tempts the couple to set forth an unorthodox plot to be together.The acting in the film is superb. Helena Bonham Carter's sensual, thoughtful, performance as Kate Croy earned her many critics awards, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (This reviewer maintains that she should have won.) Supported by a wonderful supporting cast, Alison Eliot delivers a touching performance as the young heiress, and Linus Roache is magnificent as Bonham Carter's poverty-stricken love interest. The film is further enhanced by the beautiful cinematography, at it's best in the scenes set in Venice, and the gorgeous costumes. Ten stars