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Topic: Enduring Love


In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Enduring Love
At the beginning of Enduring Love, a couple, Joe and Claire, are having a picnic in an idyllic open field.
Enduring Love grabs audiences from the beginning, with a slickly filmed sequence showing the panic that everybody feels.
It does not quite fit in with the rest of Enduring Love (note the title has two meanings), but watching the two go at it is more than enough.
www.haro-online.com /movies/enduring_love.html   (592 words)

  
 Mixed Reviews - Enduring Love - reviewed by Gabriel Shanks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ENDURING LOVE is directed by Roger Michell, the vastly underrated artist whose career peaks and valleys are well documented.
ENDURING LOVE is, ultimately, a formalist film about messy subjects, a struggle to make codified sense of our ephemeral and uncontrollable lives.
ENDURING LOVE flouts all of this, engaging us in a character-driven experience that, in earlier times, might have been made by Schlesinger or Hitchcock.
www.mixedreviews.net /maindishes/2004/enduringlove/enduringlove.shtml   (848 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | 'Enduring Love'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Enduring Love begins in a sweet Oxfordshire pasture; a professor named Joe (Daniel Craig) and his sculptor girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton) are picnicking and uncork a bottle of French champagne.
Enduring Love is a deft title, defter than it looks: we don't know if the love in question is eternal, or if it's an affliction that has to be endured.
Enduring Love (R; 100 min.), directed by Roger Michell, written by Joe Penhall, based on Ian McEwan's novel, photographed by Haris Zambarloukos and starring Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton, opens Friday at selected theaters.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.03.04/enduring-0445.html   (633 words)

  
 Enduring Love
"Enduring Love" is a creepy and mesmerizing thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with another man after meeting him in a ballooning accident.
The film version of "Enduring Love" plays like a cinematic equivalent to the Police song, "Every Breath You Take," which is also from the point of view of a stalker.
"Enduring Love" is his first psychological thriller, and he shows he has some mastery over the basic genre conventions.
www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/E/enduring_love.htm   (335 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Enduring Love
Enduring Love is scary not because ghosts pop out of closets but because Joe is incapable of controlling his fears, thoughts and Jed.
Roger Michell's "Enduring Love" is the perfect thinking man's thriller, a film that is at once an exploration of guilt and obsession and a study in moral and instinctual horror...
In Enduring Love, it's the crash of a hot-air balloon; in Amsterdam, a death that wreaks havoc on an old friendship; in Atonement, a rape followed by a false accusation and wrongful imprisonment.
news.surfwax.com /movies/files/Enduring_Love_movies.html   (3483 words)

  
 The Enduring Popularity of Courtly Love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Witness the simliarities between the language of courtly love and the traits of one of the most integral of pagan rituals - the slaying of the warrior-victim-king at the hands of the high priestess to enhance the fertility of the fields...
As though familiarity with this devotion is taken for granted, courtly love is referenced, its language employed in fables and modern-day myths, its significance regarded with a mixture of derision and admiration.
The concept of romantic love rising to a higher plane and transforming the life of the giver for the sake of the receiver, is celebrated to be sure, but only as a fleeting thing, an infatuation which is bound to fade with time.
marauder.millersville.edu /~resound/court.html   (4377 words)

  
 "Enduring Love"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ENDURING LOVE raises the bar on a genre that includes films such as "Fatal Attraction," eclipsing their simplistic moral lessons with something more nuanced and darkly thought-provoking.
ENDURING LOVE offers an opportunity for heart-stopping filmmaking, a remarkable five minutes of cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos and editing by Nicolas Gaster that is only prelude to the subtle, graceful, even minimalist storytelling to come.
ENDURING LOVE is an immaculate piece of moviemaking, with an extraordinarily plaintive classical score by Jeremy Sams and magnificent performances all around.
www.bluematia.com /enduring_love.htm   (2279 words)

  
 Enduring Love (2004): Reviews
Enduring Love's plot inevitably drifts into “Fatal Attraction” territory, but its wholesale immersion in Craig's deteriorating condition render it a wrenching, uncompromising study of the human mind in freefall.
Enduring Love is an intellectual investigation of love from three equally frustrating perspectives - the physical, the spiritual and that mixture of emotion, psychology and interpretation we call art - couched loosely in a cool stalker thriller.
Enduring Love deliberately smudges the line between what is bizarre and what is simply human nature.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/enduringlove   (1259 words)

  
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In Enduring Love, this is juxtaposed to the fascination with perversity shown in McEwan’s short stories.
Enduring Love shows Ian McEwan at his best, combining the stark but sensitive rendering of human suffering seen in the best of his novels, with the thrilling ride of his short stories.
Enduring Love makes the reader pick their way through different and unsatisfactory versions of the truth.
www.tom-and-ib.freeserve.co.uk /McEwan.html   (1074 words)

  
 Enduring Love : A Novel id
Pure erotomania is a strange disease as the subject is under the delusional belief that the `object' of their obsession is in love with them.
Enduring Love is an exciting narrative and truly haunting in its depiction of human obsession.
While Enduring Love is a psychological thriller, "Saturday" is that and more - a look at forgiveness in the post-911 world.
ourlyrics.net.ru /ID_0385494149,rush   (1472 words)

  
 Enduring Love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For one, the ENDURING LOVE of film title could refer to the love of any of the several couples present in the story.
ENDURING LOVE, based on the best selling novel by Ian McEwan, is a complex thriller drama that excites primarily for Michell’s willingness to take risks.
ENDURING LOVE which recently closed the London Film Festival can be best described as difficult, daring but arguably the most beautiful violent film of the year.
www3.sympatico.ca /gilbert.seah/reviews/enduringlove.html   (539 words)

  
 Enduring Love film release
Enduring Love, adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan, is one of the most acclaimed releases this year and eagle-eyed viewers will spot Room 2001 (level 2) of the Cass Business School in one of the scenes.
Further details of the day's shoot are available on the October 2003 Enduring Love page on our latest news section.
Some of these photos were actually used during this year's London Film Festival on flyers and in leaflets to promote the premier of the film and London film locations using City University (and Cass) as a prime example.
www.city.ac.uk /ems/Latest_News/Enduring_Love_release.html   (329 words)

  
 Enduring Love - Computer Toaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa.
But Enduring Love and its underrated predecessor, Black Dogs, are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations.
As the tale unfolds, it becomes an intense psychological thriller about obsessive love, after a professional couple witness a terrible accident in the English countryside of a man falling to his gruesome death from a hot air balloon.
computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_1575110407   (682 words)

  
 Enduring Love
The title of the new film by director Roger Michell, Enduring Love (based on the 1998 novel by Ian McEwan, with a screenplay by Joe Penhall), is a double-entendre, referring both to love that is everlasting and love that must be suffered through.
Intermixed with the thriller plot is the story of Joe’s questioning of the nature of love and the gradual breakdown of his relationship with Claire.
The scenes where Joe discusses the nature of love with colleagues, friends, or students feel tacked-on; they don’t half match the energy of his scenes with Jed, but we’re almost thankful for them as a respite from their distressing confrontations.
www.pajiba.com /enduring-love.htm   (1172 words)

  
 Reading Group Guide | ENDURING LOVE by Ian McEwan
Brilliant and compassionate, this is a novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
Which is the enduring love the title refers to?
In both Amsterdam and Enduring Love, characters at a police station have faulty memories of events.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/enduring_love.asp   (756 words)

  
 Enduring Love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Much less is Enduring Love afflicted with the syndrome of flat not knowing or not thinking hard enough about what it is about, in the manner of last year's The Human Stain, another high-profile adaptation of a major novel that sank like a stone at the box-office.
The accident, for him, was a revelation of divine love, and possibly another kind of love, since he can't leave Joe alone, can't stay away from his house, can't stop begging him for confirmation and even reciprocation of his own feelings.
You leave Enduring Love weirdly convinced that all three of these people are right, even though or perhaps because each of their positions has significantly switched by the picture's end.
www.nicksflickpicks.com /endurlov.html   (2474 words)

  
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 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Enduring Love"
After finishing Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love" I felt that the book surely couldn't be saying what it appeared to be saying, and yet I couldn't see any other possible interpretation.
"Enduring Love" is the looniest bit of special pleading for the deranged since Peter Shaffer's "Equus." In that play, a teenage boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike is held up by his impotent, disillusioned psychiatrist as an exemplar of passion in a passionless world.
"Enduring Love" is about how a man who is incapable of love is made a better person when he's stalked by a psychotic.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2004/10/28/enduring_love/index.html   (316 words)

  
 At the Movies: Enduring Love
In the mood for love and To Live: I watched "In the mood for love" on DVD after watching your review of "2046" and was absolutely spellbound.
Enduring Love’ begins on a peaceful summer day in the English countryside which turns to tragedy when a man dies in a ballooning accident.
Jed is insistent that Joe loves him, Joe is so frustrated and intimidated by the situation that his relationship with Claire begins to suffer.
www.abc.net.au /atthemovies/txt/s1320384.htm   (917 words)

  
 Premiere Magazine: Enduring Love
Enduring Love is one of those outrageous stalker thrillers in which so much trouble could have been avoided if the characters had only thought to call the police.
We learn that Joe is a college professor who lectures on the subject of love but doesn't believe in it himself (he spews moodkillers like, "Love is a Darwinian expedient.
Jed is too passive-aggressive a stalker to be anything more than tedious, and when he finally turns up wielding a butcher knife, the scene feels more a contrivance than a natural climax for this intellectual pas de deux.
www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=2&article_id=1848   (432 words)

  
 Enduring Love: Film Review: Enduring Love
ENDURING LOVE — release date November 26 A pshychological thriller based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
An intense and brooding soul, Jed insists that he and Joe have shared a powerful moment together and that, as he puts it, "something has passed between them." Joe is perplexed by the suggestion and he simply dismisses it as the ramblings of a man trying to cope with the emotional stress of what happened.
His beliefs shaken to the core, Joe is driven to the brink of madness and murder himself, as he is forced to confront the mystery not only of what happened at the picnic, but of love, faith and forgiveness.
www.femalefirst.co.uk /entertainment/8302004.htm   (564 words)

  
 Reading Group Guide | ENDURING LOVE by Ian McEwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But mostly it was smiles and hugs, and in thirty-five minutes I experienced more than fifty theatrical happy endings, each one with the appearance of being slightly less well acted than the one before, until I began to feel emotionally exhausted and suspected that even the children were being insincere.
In the months after we met and before we bought the apartment, she had written me some beauties, passionately abstract in their exploration of the ways our love was different from and superior to any that had ever existed.
I had tried to match hers, but all that sincerity would permit me were the facts, and they seemed miraculous enough to me: a beautiful woman loved and wanted to be loved by a large, clumsy, balding fellow who could hardly believe his luck.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/enduring_love-excerpt.asp   (5086 words)

  
 Enduring Love Review (DVD Movie/Film)
After this attention-grabbing opener, Enduring Love slowly morphs into a kind of slow-burning stalker movie with the re-emergence of one the men from the rescue attempt in Joe's life.
Enduring Love may come from the director of Notting Hill, but don't let the title fool you into thinking another cosy romance movie is on the agenda.
The main difficulty some audiences may have with Enduring Love is that it is populated almost entirely by cold, unlikeable characters (well, unless you count the wisecracking addition of the ubiquitous Bill Nighy who seems to have wandered in from another movie set).
www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=266   (857 words)

  
 Enduring Love
In this month's issue of Sight and Sound there's a letter from the producer of Enduring Love, Kevin Loader, rebuking the magazine for concentrating so strongly on his film's deviation from its source material.
It quickly becomes clear that Jed is fairly unbalanced - his desire to have his love reciprocated rapidly becomes obsessive and the already fragile Joe begins to descend even deeper into paranoia and depression as a result, pushing away his lover and alienating his friends.
On paper Enduring Love was original and resonant, on celluloid it just isn't in the same league.
www.musicomh.com /films2/enduring-love.htm   (413 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Search / Movie details / Enduring Love
One needn't have read Ian McEwan's 1997 novel ''Enduring Love" to be so many steps ahead of the movie that's been made of it.
''Enduring Love" is technically outstanding and the performances are strong.
The last act of ''Enduring Love" is an abridgement of that film's, too.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7223   (789 words)

  
 Chicago movie theaters, movie reviews, movie photos, movie news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Not only do the words "Enduring Love" refer to a love that endures, despite being unrequited, but they also signify the nightmare of trying to survive the obsessive advances of someone who won't take "No" for an answer.
Jed, by contrast, is a true believer convinced that love (or God?) is on his side and that love will find a way.
Love conquers all, the poets tell us—but, in "Enduring Love," that very notion makes the blood run cold.
metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-041103-movies-review-mw-love.story   (863 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | I think I'm right, therefore I am
Enduring Love starts with a set-piece, a ballooning accident whose most agonising aspect is that five men - Joe being one of them - are for a moment hanging by ropes from the wind-buffeted basket.
She is convinced that her husband, a notably cautious man, must have been trying to impress someone and therefore, inevitably, a lover unseen by the others when he held on to the rope too fatally long.
Enduring Love is much the better book, despite its inability fully to dramatise its themes, perhaps because McEwan himself is richly divided between Joe's rationalism and something else.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,98968,00.html   (1167 words)

  
 public_html/an_enduring_love.htm
The book is especially valuable for the personal biographical data on the life of the Shahbanou, and the love story she unveils involving her husband, her family, and the nation of Iran.
It is virtually impossible to remain indifferent to the poignancy of the narrative, or unsympathetic to Mrs.
             An Enduring Love is a memoir of the past and a claimed, hopeful stake by Farah Pahlavi on the future of Iran and a repristinated Peacock Throne in its midst.
www.markdankof.com /an_enduring_love.htm   (1469 words)

  
 Enduring Love (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Enduring Love is the latest film by British director Roger Michell, who was also responsible for a wide range of different movies including Changing Lanes and his film that received most kudos, Notting Hill.
Enduring Love opens with a breathtaking yet horrid scene: Joe and Claire (played by Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton) are out in the countryside for a romantic picnic, when their attention is caught by a hot air balloon in peril.
Enduring Love is based on a novel by Ian McEwan (who also wrote The Cement Garden).
www.chokingonpopcorn.com /popcorn/index.php?p=536   (711 words)

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