The Heart of Me

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The Heart of Me ★★½ 2002 (R)

Rather staid adaptation of Rosamond Lehmann's 1953 novel “The Echoing Grove,” which follows the romantic trials of bohemian Dinah (Bonham Carter) and her adulterous affair with her chilly older sister Madeleine's (Williams) husband, Rickie (Bettany). Soapy melodrama covers approximately the mid-thirties to the postwar period. 96m/C VHS, DVD . GB Helena Bonham-Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron; D: Thaddeus O'Sullivan; W: Lucinda Coxon; C: Gyula Pados; M: Nicholas Hooper.

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