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The Wings of the Dove

1997 · 102 min

A slow, elegant burn of longing and moral compromise, wrapped in sumptuous period detail and quiet devastation.

Tagline
A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist.
Overview
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • class
  • morality
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance8
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Iain Softley
Written by
Hossein Amini
Starring
Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling, Alex Jennings, Michael Gambon, Ben Miles
Music
Edward Shearmur
Cinematography
Eduardo Serra
Runtime
102 min
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
Italian, English

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