Helena Bonham Carter

The Heart of Me
$14.98
Despite the effort to romanticize it, "the Heart of Me" is a pretty grubby story. A woman has an affair with her sister's husband. The sister catches on. Emotional mayhem ensues.

I watched this movie because it stars Helena Bonham-Carter who I admire. She plays the woman who betrays her sister. But even her charisma and acting ability couldn't salvage this movie for me. Why is that?

I think it all comes down to this. If two people have an affair, it's necessary that we see the characters as more or less driven to it by their respective circumstances. In the case of the movie "Damage" which starred Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche and concerned a man who had an affair with his son's fiance, the plot took pains to understand both characters were driven to it by an erotic obsession they couldn't control.

Damage

In the case of "Little Children," we have Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson playing two married people (but not to each other) with young children who embark on an affair. But that movie's plot showed how Winslet and Wilson's characters naturally drifted into their relationship because their marriages were dysfunctional. It made sense for them to get involved.

Little Children

"The Heart of Me" doesn't explain the affair. The leads barely exchange a few sentences and the next thing you know, they're having sex. The plot does establish that Bonham-Carter's character's sister was a bit cold, but that doesn't seem like a justification for stepping out on your wife with her sister. And there's no explanation for why Bonham-Carter's character chooses to betray her sister's trust and love by sleeping with her husband.

So I can't recommend this.

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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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A period piece that shines a light on the mindset of the upper classes in Victorian England. A wonderful story.

Lady Jane
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Lady Jane, aside from the touching love story which no historian could realistically capture, appeared to be an accurate account of the girl who was manipulated into becoming one of the queens of England. It was well acted and entertaining and free from the usual phoniness of the movie industry.