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	"Sylvia" - Salon
		You wouldn't necessarily know that from the title: "Sylvia" is ostensibly about the life of the troubled poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963, not long after her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, left her and their two children for another woman.
		"Sylvia" doesn't take us that deep into the controversy -- it ends with Plath's death, just after she has placed a tidy trayful of bread and milk in the room where her two children sleep, sealed off that room and retreated to the kitchen, where she then turns on the gas.
		For all its problems as a movie, "Sylvia" at least strives to make the point that the only two people who can know what goes on in a marriage are the people who are actually in it.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/10/17/sylvia/index.html (927 words)

	Unfashionable Observations Movie Review - Sylvia (2003)
		Upon accosting him for the first time on account of the critique, however, Sylvia is not so much angry or upset by the bad review of her work, but rather intrigued by the author of the critique.
		Utterly crestfallen, Sylvia’s paranoia and depression spiral out of control, ultimately ending in a curious revelation wherein beauty and salvation from her life of unrequited love lie in suicide.
		This is a sad movie that never quite achieves an intimacy with the audience that would really allow us to experience that sadness along with the characters.
	www.unfashionableobservations.com /sylvia.html (605 words)

	Sylvia Plath Forum: home page
		Sylvia Plath was a prisoner - of the 1950s and its common or garden sexism, of Ted Hughes, of her own ambition, of her marriage, of her children, and she was in an almost permanent rage.
		I agree it is a disservice to Plath.
		Sylvia may only be a movie, but because it depicts the life of an immortal figure in 20th century poetry, and not a fictional character, accuracy and meticulous attention to detail must necessarily transcend all else.
	www.sylviaplathforum.com /tedandsylvia.shtml (18396 words)

	Sylvia Movie Review
		There cannot be a movie or a book that reaches the whole story or brings out the loss of what someone like Sylvia or those who were apart of her life had to suffer with, unless you, yourself, have come close to relating to such an illness.
		Sylvia begins to truly embrace her writing and feels the sort of freedom she had not felt when married to Ted.
		Ironically, though, when this would have been the break Sylvia was looking for, it was also the crashing point of her fragile mind and the loss of her life, during a time that could have opened a new world to Sylvia.
	www.thecelebritycafe.com /movies/full_review/334.html (590 words)

	AlterNet: Sylvia and Ted, a Potboiler
		Sylvia Plath herself would have been curious about the way 'Sylvia' answers the question -- Plath was always trying to draw juicy plots from the materials of her life.
		In the movie, Plath isn't even bipolar; she is given none of the vivid exuberance that marks Plath's letters home during her marriage, and that fuels her hyperactivity when she moves to London after kicking Ted out of their house in Devon.
		But nothing is quoted until the movie's extraordinary ending, in which their doctor silently reads a letter from Sassoon that describes Owen's death and encloses a copy of one of his last poems.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16974 (2017 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - Sylvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rather than a display of Plath's love of the English word and her remarkable flourish, Sylvia is a dark and disturbing look at her marriage, her home-life and her flirtatious curiosity with death.
		The dreary atmosphere of Devon beautifully mirrors Sylvia's misty mental state, but Ted's adulterous ways begin to drive a deadly wedge between the two, spiking Sylvia's recurring jealousy and further deepening her depression.
		Sylvia eventually opens the valves on her gas oven, effectively ending her life and undoubtedly propelling her fame in literary and poetic circles.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/sylvia.htm (499 words)

	Sylvia Review :: Hollywood.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sylvia is based on notes released five years ago by the writer's husband, British poet Ted Hughes, after 30 years of silence (Hughes died of cancer in 1998).
		Sylvia seems normal on the outside, but Paltrow gives us the barest hint of the demons lurking beneath her polished, erudite exterior.
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	www.hollywood.com.cob-web.org:8888 /movies/reviews/movie/1730557 (648 words)

	Moviecrazed
		His voice is a low growl, and his sexual magnetism, the trait that is the movie's main concern, is palpable...
		We have to take on faith that Sylvia has a great mind, as well as an independent spirit, because she is pathetically dependent on a narcissist whose primary talent seems to be for chasing skirts.
		To give her credit, she makes a valiant effort not to transform ‘Sylvia’ into a vanity project…This undramatic drama would be a tough call for any movie, and Paltrow does a fine job of sitting in company and sizzling like hot oil.
	www.moviecrazed.com /critics/sylvia.html (557 words)

	Modamag.com \|Sylvia - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was there that Sylvia met fellow poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig, “Road To Perdition”), and the two began a tender courtship, which eventually evolved into marriage and parenthood.
		But Sylvia’s mental framework was fractured, and her increasing paranoia about Ted’s infidelities, as well as her own creative block, festered to such a boiling point that suicide seemed like the only way out.
		For starters, the film is titled “Sylvia,” not “Sylvia Plath,” forgoing any notion that this will be a thorough expose on the famous poet and her relationship with love, sanity, and words.
	www.modamag.com /sylvia.htm (386 words)

	Sylvia Plath Forum: Ted and Sylvia discussion: January-September 03
		Sylvia had much love for her children and this would not be what she would have wanted.
		Sylvia was artistic and passionate but a big part of her life was also her mental instability.
		Sylvia Plath had a way, an insight, into understanding madness, and that is the genius of her work.
	www.sylviaplathforum.com /archives/f2.html (11993 words)

	Sylvia
		Sylvia is a case in the latter end of the spectrum, and while it showcases new talents of Gwyneth Paltrow that she doesn't normally get to show off, it leaves the viewer wanting a stronger emotional impact from the infamously suicidal poet.
		The consequence of filming a writer, far too often, is that you tend to watch them sitting around and stewing with frustration instead of living the life that inspires their work.There is also too much reliance on name or scandal recognition to pull a story through, as in the multiple missed-opportunity that Sylvia becomes.
		As beautifully and respectfully shot, and as well acted as the film is, Sylvia falls short of providing the three-dimensional portrait of a troubled soul that it seeks to do.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2003_Sylvia.html (500 words)

	Sylvia
		Sylvia delves into the tawdry details, which give the movie all the power of...
		A Lifetime movie that happened to land Paltrow for a role that might’ve gone to Melissa Gilbert or Meredith Baxter Birney.
		It's a little surprising that Sylvia is so conventional, considering that Plath, whatever you think of her work or her life story, openly defied plenty of the '50s conventions.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/sylvia (1016 words)

	Sylvia Movie Review - Sylvia Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Sylvia Plath's later poems were composed in the devastated detail that only hurt and envy over a lover can ignite.
		But Ted is warned of Sylvia's fragility, her suicide attempts, and her father's death, in a well-acted encounter with Sylvia's mother, who is played by Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner.
		That starts to change when he challenges Sylvia to explain what her poems are about, which she does on a cloudless day in a rowboat that Ted fears will be swallowed by the current.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=2806 (760 words)

	Sylvia DVD at Video Universe
		Director Christine Jeffs takes the heartbreaking story of writer Sylvia Plath's life and suicide (which has taken on mythological significance in certain literary circles) and renders it in a palette of surprising beauty.
		But Sylvia's success in her art gives way to jealous madness as other women lavish their attentions on Ted.
		Throughout the film, the wintry atmosphere reigns and London, always good looking in films, looks frozen and inaccessible as towards the end, Sylvia's mental state reduces her to the erratic, suicidal woman she became.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6656717/a/Sylvia.htm (526 words)

	Sylvia - movie review
		SYLVIA actually begins quite brightly: it is Cambridge in the 1950s and ambitious American student Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) becomes involved with a literary clique that revolves around the handsome and imposing young poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig).
		However, a darker side of Sylvia’s character gradually comes to the fore as she finds herself increasingly housebound by her duties as wife and mother.
		SYLVIA is a well-made and well-acted drama that will hold particular appeal for students of English Literature (and will probably spark a rush of interest in Plath’s written work).
	www.phase9.tv /moviereviews/sylvia.shtml (429 words)

	Sylvia: Movie-Source.com Sylvia Movie, Sylvia Preview, Sylvia Review
		The movie, like so many of these stories about poets, encapsulates much of Sylvia's lifetime, starting off when she is in school - where she meets her husband, of course - and how she struggles through life with both depression and the inability to get her poetry noticed.
		While each person is their own, as movies go, they all run pretty much the same, and after a while you have to wonder why studios keep pumping out films like these.
		Both deliver their characters with much depth, though I must admit that I did not find Sylvia Plath to be the most wonderful of protagonists; the movie portrays her as weak-minded, paranoid and a little crazy at times.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1415 (640 words)

	Sylvia Press Releases
		Sylvia Plath wrote in her journal on 12 December 1958: "Why don't I write a novel?" Two-and-a-half years later, she added a note in red ink.
		Proof was a theatrical sensation, but this maths drama makes a disappointingly lacklustre movie, finds Tim Robey Proof Proof, David Auburn's 2001 play about the thin line between genius and madness, won a...
		This movie comes close, but it's not as if the pulse flutters while you watch someone scribble arcane symbols.
	www.topix.net /movies/sylvia/pr (1426 words)

	Sylvia - Movie Review
		Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath is generally regarded as one of the finest literary talents of the 20th Century.
		It's also made a bit ridiculous by the fact that Plath's real-life family refused to allow the film-makers permission to use any of her work, leaving us with almost two hours of a movie about a famous poet in which we don't get to hear as much as a line of her famous poetry.
		So, if you're not familiar with Plath's work and you don't know why so many people like her, you won't be any the wiser after watching this - and, if you ARE familiar with her work, you're unlikely to find anything either new or insightful in it.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/954 (467 words)

	Sylvia Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		Before discussing Sylvia, I’d like to quickly go though what are in my mind the four basic film categories: good-good films, bad-bad films, good-bad films and bad-good films.
		For bad-good films are movies that have been directed with skill, display examples of fine acting and have the courage to aim higher than the lowest-common denominator - but which still remain pretty awful viewing experiences.
		In fact, when watching Sylvia I looked around at the audience to see if anyone else was biting down on their shaking fist, and was surprised to see many wet faces of people who were obviously deeply affected by the film they had come to see).
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=142 (902 words)

	Sylvia Movie Trailer (Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig) Empire Movies
		The story of celebrated American poet Sylvia Plath and her turbulent marriage to a future poet laureate of England, Ted Hughes.
		Ted and Sylvia were a sensuous, volatile and brilliant couple who emerged as two of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
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	www.empiremovies.com /movies/2003/sylvia.shtml (107 words)

	Sylvia - Movie Review
		An appropriately moody, gray and madly passionate ode to misery-embracing, famously suicidal author and poetess Sylvia Plath, the biographical "Sylvia" nonetheless paints a very incomplete picture of its subject's life.
		But surely they would have contributed -- positively or negatively -- to her emotional state, which is, after all, what this movie is about.
		Beyond that, "Sylvia" has nothing to say about the literature that justifies this movie's existence.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/sylvia_1 (509 words)

	Ted and Sylvia film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Sylvia is released on Region 1 DVD in the US on the 10th February 2004.
		The UK release date for Sylvia has been set as 30th January 2004 and will be released by Icon Films.
		Gwyneth Paltrow is getting back to work after the funeral of her father with filming on Sylvia commencing at St. John's College, Cambridge University next week.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/t/tedandsylvia.shtm (440 words)

	Sylvia - Zap2it.com - Movie Reviews, Theaters, Trailers, Times and More
		Based on the true romance and marriage of American poet/novelist Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and English poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig).
		Troubled Plath grew up in Boston during the Great Depression and later attended Smith College, which was also the period in which she first attempted suicide.
		Their marriage was rocky, however, and they eventually separated in 1963 when Hughes broke her heart by taking on another lover.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/details/1,1295,35341,00.html (107 words)

	MovieFreak.Com - "Sylvia" Movie Review by Rachel Sexton
		On the heels of another real-life story about a woman who left her mark on the world, Veronica Guerin, comes the story of poet Sylvia Plath and her relationship with fellow poet Ted Hughes.
		Not only does Sylvia compose much during the film, especially near her death, but there is also a scene where she recites Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” to cows in Middle English.
		The ending of Sylvia is inevitable and presented in such a way that it doesn’t affect us as a tragedy as Veronica Guerin does.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/s/sylvia_a.htm (599 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Sylvia: The Movie (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The tempestuous relationship between Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig) is given center stage in this 2003 biopic, beginning with their first meeting at a Cambridge University party and ending with the dissolution of their marriage and Plath's suicide.
		Sylvia is filled with poems--early in the film, Plath and Hughes happily and aggressively recite Shakespeare and Chaucer to each other as an act of courtship, and later they gather with friends to hear a recording of Robert Lowell reading "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket." Excerpts from Plath's own poems also appear throughout the movie.
		Although this film has received criticism from Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes, for sentimentalizing her mother's suicide, Paltrow as Plath brings grace and tact to a difficult role.
	www.poets.org.cob-web.org:8888 /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5706 (163 words)

	Sylvia - Movie Message Boards
		The movie is really about her relationship with Ted Hughes (another poet) who is played by Daniel Craig.
		Paltrow did a very good job, I could really see and feel the paranoia and distress she was trying to emote.
		Her story is really very sad, and I always noticed that sort of emptiness in her poetry.
	www.movieorigins.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3314 (281 words)

	Sylvia - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Gwyneth Paltrow stars as poet Sylvia Plath in the true story of her troubled marriage with fellow poet Ted Hughes, exploring both the creative genius...
		Sylvia Official site with trailer, synopsis, cast and crew, production notes, photographs, and multimedia [requires Flash].
		Sylvia Review (DVD Movie/Film) Movie Review of Sylvia DVD directed by Christine Jeffs and staring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Michael Gambon.
	movies.aol.com /movie/sylvia/14385/main (142 words)

	Sylvia (2003): Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Christine Jeffs
		Sylvia (2003): Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Christine Jeffs
		"...by the time the movie ends, we don't really feel as though we know what made her tick."
		"Sylvia portrays this American poet's obsession with self-destruction and her futile efforts to exorcise her demons with the force of her imagination."
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-1126413/reviews.php (488 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Sylvia" review (2003) Christine Jeffs, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sylvia movie review, Christine Jeffs, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig.
		On the small screen, this bio is even less likely to hold the interest of anyone who isn't already especially curious about Plath -- and more likely to tick off those who are -- as it features none of her poetry since the poet's estate was against the making of this film.
		'Sylvia' shortchanges poetess's brilliance by assuming audience know her work and psyche well
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/sylvia.html (563 words)

	Movie Review - Sylvia - eFilmCritic
		They fall in love and are married, and he, with his sonorous voice and rugged good looks, becomes a fan favorite while she is saddled with domestic chores and finds it difficult to create new poetry herself.
		Ted's success -- both with critics and with female fans, who swoon over him at readings -- caused Sylvia to be consumed with jealousy, a passion which contributes to her destruction.
		Jeffs' direction of John Brownlow's screenplay merely retells Plath's life without insight or commentary, caught once again in the biopic trap of assuming a person's life is interesting simply because 1) it's true and 2) the filmmaker happens to really, really like the subject.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=8261 (416 words)

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