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Article: POETRY AND EMOTION PALTROW DISPLAYS POISE AND PASSION IN `SYLVIA'
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2003
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Sylvia Plath's later poems were composed in the devastated detail
that only hurt and envy over a lover can ignite. In "Sylvia," a new
film about the poet's brief adult years, screenwriter John Brownlow
and director Christine Jeffs try presenting this angst in cinematic
terms. The results are mixed, but noble.
The experience of reading Plath would be hard to duplicate with
any real, penetrating success - so fiercely voluble, so interior. The
words lead only into darkness. Yet Plath's seven-year marriage to
fellow poet Ted Hughes had a radioactive glow worthy of a juicy
telling. Even when it was good, something was wrong. From this
unstable union came a depressed woman's suicide.
The film had ...
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