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Enduring Love [2004]


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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

A red hot-air balloon floating gracefully over the green English countryside leads to a shocking death in Enduring Love, an eerie and hypnotic movie based on a novel by Ian McEwan. Two men tried and failed to help, and afterwards Joe (Daniel Craig, Sylvia, The Mother) finds himself being stalked by the hungry-eyed Jed (Rhys Ifans, Vanity Fair, Human Nature). Like a gangly wraith, Jed follows Joe and begs him to recognize the passionate love Jed feels certain was sparked by the balloon accident. Jed's obsession crawls into Joe's head and his life, clawing at his happy relationship with his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar, Minority Report) and derailing Joe into an obsessive spiral of his own. Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Craig and Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer


Read the book instead
Review date: 2008-10-25 Rating: 2 out of 10

If you are interested by the plot synopsis read the book instead (Enduring Love). It has much more depth which cannot be shown on film. The actors' try their best (Bill Nighy, as ever, is great in a sadly quite minor role) but it's not the easiest book to make into a film and, while I'm not usually one for writing negative reviews, I wish they hadn't bothered.

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Ok. Not a blockbuster but watchable
Review date: 2008-01-12 Rating: 8 out of 10

I read the book twice, once around ten years ago and then again a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed the book a lot and was really looking forward to the movie. The movie did resemble the book enough for me although some characters were different to my expectations.
Although I did not expect to see sentence to scene reproduced, I was dissapointed that there were some parts missing; the reporting of Jed to the police, attempted assasination in th restaurant etc. The balooning incident however was very well portrayed I thought, The detail and the finding of the body in the sitting position were scenes brought straight from the book.
Rhys Ilfens did a great job portraying Jed and Daniel Craig's part of Joe was good.
I think for someone who has not read the book first, it might not be the movie for them.. my girlfriend fell asleep... but then again she falls asleep during the loudest action movie too ;)



awkward & unconvincing
Review date: 2007-11-20 Rating: 2 out of 10

The novel has a marvellous first chapter, after which it descends into pretentious tedium. The film, as a whole, is cringe-makingly bad. (Note the sub-Hitchockian score.)

Inconsequential luvvie fest
Review date: 2007-11-15 Rating: 2 out of 10

Central performances verge on the cringe-making at times which is unforgiveable with content like this. The narrative is fairly slight but still manages to be ineptly handled. And there's more! The occasional glimmer of an imaginative bit of editing can't hope to disguise what were a succession of earnest but unconvincing dialogues. There is a constant sense that here is a low, low, low budget London-backed film that is serving as nothing more than a vehicle to occupy the time of a stretch limo load of light to middlewight drama luvvies lacking in any other gainful employment. Shameful to think that once Brit movies had at least some subtelty and style if not much cash. This is outclassed by those made for TV American 'relationship issue' movies which are without any of the pretension but are more relevant and involving.

An inadequate adaptation.
Review date: 2007-10-02 Rating: 2 out of 10

It baffles me that a film director would take this wonderful novel of ideas and produce such a travesty. I hated this film and was unable to endure it to the end. If you've read the book, don't bother watching this.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Samantha Morton
Susan Lynch
Daniel Craig
Rhys Ifans
Alexandra Aitken

Creators:
Daniel Craig (Primary Contributor)
Samantha Morton (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Pathe Distribution
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
EAN: 5060002833551
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-04-11
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 96 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2004
Language: English (Original Language)

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