26 July 2015

Movie review for the day: Iris


Rico watched Iris with the fiancée, mostly because it stars Judy Dench:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch (played, at different ages,  by Kate Winslet and Judy Dench) and her husband, John Bayley (played by Hugh Bonneville and Jim Broadbent), from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease and her eventual death.
Rico says it was a sadder movie than he expected, with Iris Murdoch, a famous writer, descending into Alzheimer's oblivion, a fate that (though he may not be famous, he's still a writer), given his father's trials, awaits Rico...

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