The Heart of Me

The Heart of Me is a costume drama directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan in 2002, with Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams and Paul Bettany in the lead roles. The film is based on the novel The Echoing Grove ( The Buried day) by Rosamond Lehmann and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 6, 2002.

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1934, after the death of her father invites the decent and uptight housewife Madeleine their idiosyncratic sister Dinah to her house and her husband, Rickie, the chic London home. The couple has a son named Anthony. Madeleine has always been envious of Dinah, an unconventional painter, which often causes despair in her conservative sister, and mother. Madeleine finally tries to betroth Dinah with a ansehnlichem man. Dinah announces her engagement then at a meal. But later in the evening she is Rickie, who had long feelings for Dinah asked to end the betrothal. Over time the two begin an affair. Even as Dinah is pregnant, they prefer to have made ​​his marriage. Rickie lives his life with Madeleine as before, while Dinah with her friend Bridie awaits the birth of the child.

After the baby is born dead, Dinah turns away from Rickie and ended the affair. This triggers despair at Rickie, what he is trying to hide from Madeleine. Months later, however, she receives a letter from Bridie by this her about the affair and gives an insight into the incidents. Rickie does not give in after the end of the affair. Ultimately, Dinah comes back into his life and he tells Madeleine that he leave. However, things take a turn for the worse, as Rickie collapses and is rushed to the hospital, while Dinah ignorant home waiting for him. Dinah will be held later by her mother and sister away to see him again, tell her that he would have decided to return to his family. Rickie other hand, they say that Dinah had left him.

Only after a few months, the young lovers meet each other again, as Dinah leaves funded by Rickie apartment. He notices that she was there all the time and has not gone away. Dinah, however, is too injured to continue after what has happened to the affair, then separate the two one last time. The film ends with a reconciliation between Dinah and Madeleine and how both learn to forgive each other.

Awards

  • 2003: a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for Olivia Williams. A nomination in the category Best Actress for Helena Bonham Carter.
  • 2003: A ALFA Award in the category Best British Actress for Helena Bonham Carter. A nomination for Paul Bettany, for Best British Actor.
  • 2004: A Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor for Paul Bettany.
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