Sylvia (DVD)

=== SYLVIA === Released in 2003 under the genre Biography/Drama,'Sylvia' chronicles the turbulent life of Poet Sylvia Plath, and her seven year marriage to her husband Ted Hughes Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. The year is 1956 and the film opens with Sylvia talking about a dream she had. In the dream she had likened herself to a tree with branches outstretched. Each branch representing something about herself. One branch was her life, ...
...strange and twisted feelings that Sylvia bore for her father. She likened him to a German Nazi, and the relationship with her father had a huge bearing on her life. Sylvia is American and had started to write poetry seriously, though it is not honed in any particular style as yet. We see her at Cambridge University, enjoying campus life and all it has to offer. She appears to be reasonably happy at this point of her life, and she tries to get her ...

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...life, marriage and death of Sylvia Plath. I imagine or I suspect that many who have heard of Plath and are thus interested in seeing this film will know of the tragedy and the darkness that this film will ultimately portray. For those coming to view Sylvia, with no prior knowledge of the poet's life, they will ultimately learn of her later life, marriage and subsequent tragic death. I am not giving away the plot here, I'm not giving away the ending ...
...all about the journey of a life, the ending is not of no consequence but just inevitable. The film begins from the time that the American born Plath was at Cambridge where she meets her soon to be husband, Ted Hughes. They are both poets and are drawn to each other and soon married. The film tells the story of their love affair, their marriage and the life that they led together. I realise that this doesn't sound like much of a plot, but basically ...

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Sylvia Plath is a woman who seems to have it all - a talent for poetry, good looks and a fantastic husband in the poet Ted Hughes. Unfortunately, her life has been dogged by severe depression, leading to suicide attempts on more than one occasion. Marriage to Ted helps with the situation for a while; at least until it is clear that his constant philandering do not help matters. After two children, the couple decide that enough is enough and Ted leaves ...
...and, having read some of Sylvia Plath's work, can understand some, at least, of what she must have gone through. I wasn't sure that Gwyneth Paltrow would be able to portray the various layers of Plath's feelings; not that I have any particular doubts about her aptitude as an actress, but rather that it is incredibly difficult to portray someone suffering from depression on screen without making them seem annoying and selfish. I was actually very ...

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...getting annoyed that we forgot! Sylvia was one such film, but my fiance was so keen to see it that he got me to hire it through our DVD rentals service. Sylvia is based on the life of poet Sylvia Plath, who happened to be married to Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate and very successful poet. Sylvia meets Ted whilst they are at University in Cambridge, where they are both struggling to become published poets. The pair start a relationship, and soon Ted has ...
...things start going wrong when Sylvia begins to resent Ted's success, and struggles with being a mother and wife. Can Sylvia come out of her depression or will it all become too much? To be honest, I wasn't expecting the film that I saw in any way, and by the end, I was suitably shocked and feeling a tad depressed when it was all over! I didn't really know anything about either Sylvia or Ted before watching this film, so the story was new to me and ...

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...and early 1960's American poet Sylvia Plath struck a chord with female society. Her poetry showed a maturity beyond her tender years and elevated her to prominance in what was becoming a male dominated industry. Her formative years at University in England were not so much noteable for her literary output, as for her coupe in acquiring reknowned poetic genius Ted Hughes as her partner. As their relationship developed and moved on to marriage and ...
...world for his work, whilst Sylvia remained in his shadows. Whilst at the the height of his fame Hughes embarked on a number of affairs, that only added character to his untarnishable name, but heaped misery on an an increasingly fragile and unstable Plath, leading to their eventual seperation. Whilst under stress Plath produced some of her most inspired work, namely 'The Colossus - a book of poetry' and 'The Bell Jar' - a semi-autobiographical work, ...

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Sylvia is the movie made adaptation of the life and loss of the acclaimed poet Sylvi Plath. Directed by Christine Jeffs the film is a definate step forward from the last attempt at a film of her life, made a few decades ago. Gwenyth Paltrow plays the role of Sylvia, who meets Ted Hughes, another poet, they fall rather quickly into a passionate love, however the main stumbling blocks to their relationship is whether or not they can overcome the cnage ...
...depression, also can Sylvia cope with living in the shadow of her husbands success with poetry. Ted Hughes received more praise for his poetry than Sylvia, whose first released book Collusus received less than favourable reviews. As the marriage disintergrates, especially after the birth of their children, and move to the countyside Sylvia withdraws into herself, her depression peaking, and Ted spends more and more time in the city, to work on his ...

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...This film deals with Sylvia Plath's relationship with the British Poet Lauriat, Ted Hughes. They met in Cambridge University and embarked upon a passionate love affair. They got married, but there relationship was always stormy. Ultimately Sylvia, who suffered from depression throughout her life, kills herself. The film examines their relationship rather than Sylvia Plath herself. Their love affair is intense, a sort of violent passion that consumes ...
...acting by Gywneth Paltrow as Sylvia is really high. This shows that she really is a quality actress; she is on screen for pretty much the entire film and is believable in the role. She manages to be both fragile and burning with a furious inner rage at the same time. I am not so keen on the guy that plays Ted Hughes, he doesn't really seem to do much more than read the lines. Maybe he is supposed to be cold though, I am not really sure. The film ...

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