Reviews for "The Wings of the Dove"
Helena received stellar reviews for "The Wings of the Dove", and I have decided to post a few:
"Kate, played with flashing eyes and bold imagination by Helena Bonham Carter, is a poor girl with a tenuous foothold in society. Her father is a penniless drunkard. Her mother is dead. She is taken in by her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who wants to marry her off to the best advantage--perhaps to Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). But Kate loves Merton Densher (Linus Roache), an ill-paid journalist who cheerfully admits he doesn't believe the things he writes. Maude forbids the marriage and even threatens to cut off the weekly shillings she pays Kate's father."
-Roger Ebert
Link: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971114/REVIEWS/711140306/1023
"Meanwhile, Carter, usually relegated to playing doll-like virgins, gets to portray a brooding vixen here, and she's impressive. She and Roache make the mutual sexual enthrallment of Kate and Merton convincing and erotic in a way that's also deeply sad."
-Laura Miller,
Salon
Link: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/1997/11/14wings.html?CP=SAL&DN=110
"Costume-drama queen Helena Bonham Carter plays Kate and she is superb. Her intensely intelligent, darkly sensual performance has already earned her a best actress award from the National Board of Review. An Oscar nomination -- at the very least -- seems inevitable. "
-Carol Buckland
CNN
Link: http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/09/wings.dove/
"This is a breakthrough for Softley, whose earlier films ``Backbeat'' and ``Hackers'' only hinted at the style and complexity he displays here, and a wonderful showcase for Roache, Elliott and Bonham Carter, who gives her best performance yet. "
-Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/14/DD57299.DTL
"Helena Bonham Carter can do no wrong in my book. She was a soaring Shakespearean comedian in "Twelfth Night" and a standard-issue neurotic New Yorker in "Mighty Aphrodite." In "A Room with a View," "Howards End" and others, she's always provided an oasis of intelligent and thoughtful performance.
In "The Wings of the Dove," she has the nastiness and perversity of Henry James to negotiate and does so admirably. "
-Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/11/14/WEEKEND13430.dtl
"Helena Bonham Carter gives one of her best performances, for which she received a well-deserved Oscar® nomination. She portrays Kate as an opportunist more than a cold-blooded schemer. Even when we sympathize with the manipulative Kate the least, Carter keeps her human. "
-Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm
Link: http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/w/wingsdove.htm
"Kate, played with flashing eyes and bold imagination by Helena Bonham Carter, is a poor girl with a tenuous foothold in society. Her father is a penniless drunkard. Her mother is dead. She is taken in by her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who wants to marry her off to the best advantage--perhaps to Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). But Kate loves Merton Densher (Linus Roache), an ill-paid journalist who cheerfully admits he doesn't believe the things he writes. Maude forbids the marriage and even threatens to cut off the weekly shillings she pays Kate's father."
-Roger Ebert
Link: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971114/REVIEWS/711140306/1023
"Meanwhile, Carter, usually relegated to playing doll-like virgins, gets to portray a brooding vixen here, and she's impressive. She and Roache make the mutual sexual enthrallment of Kate and Merton convincing and erotic in a way that's also deeply sad."
-Laura Miller,
Salon
Link: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/1997/11/14wings.html?CP=SAL&DN=110
"Costume-drama queen Helena Bonham Carter plays Kate and she is superb. Her intensely intelligent, darkly sensual performance has already earned her a best actress award from the National Board of Review. An Oscar nomination -- at the very least -- seems inevitable. "
-Carol Buckland
CNN
Link: http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/09/wings.dove/
"This is a breakthrough for Softley, whose earlier films ``Backbeat'' and ``Hackers'' only hinted at the style and complexity he displays here, and a wonderful showcase for Roache, Elliott and Bonham Carter, who gives her best performance yet. "
-Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/14/DD57299.DTL
"Helena Bonham Carter can do no wrong in my book. She was a soaring Shakespearean comedian in "Twelfth Night" and a standard-issue neurotic New Yorker in "Mighty Aphrodite." In "A Room with a View," "Howards End" and others, she's always provided an oasis of intelligent and thoughtful performance.
In "The Wings of the Dove," she has the nastiness and perversity of Henry James to negotiate and does so admirably. "
-Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/11/14/WEEKEND13430.dtl
"Helena Bonham Carter gives one of her best performances, for which she received a well-deserved Oscar® nomination. She portrays Kate as an opportunist more than a cold-blooded schemer. Even when we sympathize with the manipulative Kate the least, Carter keeps her human. "
-Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm
Link: http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/w/wingsdove.htm
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