If you’re after more Cillian Murphy in your life, you could check out his 2008 period drama The Edge of Love, which also stars Matthew Rhys, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller, on Prime Video. However, you’ll need to be quick as it’s leaving the streaming service in the coming days.
The movie examines the real-life friendship between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys), his wife Caitlin Thomas (Miller) and their close friends, Vera (Knightley) and William Killick (Murphy). While the characters are based on real people, The Edge of Love offers a fictional account of their respective relationships and time together along the Welsh seashore.
If you fancy checking it out, you have five more days to watch The Edge of Love on Prime Video before it leaves the streamer on 1 February. The movie is not available currently to watch on any other streaming service, but you can also buy or rent it on Prime Video if you miss out.
Following its release in 2008, The Edge of Love received mixed reviews from critics, although The Australian did praise it for being an “intense and strangely beautiful” watch, while The Hollywood Reporter called it “deeply involving”.
“The Edge of Love holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it’s ultimately not the movie it might have been,” added the San Francisco Chronicle, with Variety saying: “While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it’s all over the map.”
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Back in 2008, Knightley praised The Edge of Love as a “really beautiful story”.
“You very rarely see films that really study friendship and rivalry and the complexities of a group of friends and how they can implode and how they manipulate each other,” she added.
“I thought it was completely fascinating. The fact that it was based on a true event and that Dylan Thomas happened to be one of the friends, I thought that was very exciting.”
Homing in on the dynamic between Vera and Caitlin, Miller noted: “It’s really rare to find women who are well written, let alone two in the same film. So it was kind of bliss, and to work with Keira because we’re really close.”
The Edge of Love is being removed from Prime Video on 1 February.
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