Amazon.co.uk Review The biting poetry and sad life of poet Sylvia Plath form the story of Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. This subtle but fascinating movie centres around Plath's relationship with poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), with whom she fell aggressively in love while a student at Cambridge. Their relationship proved passionate but rocky; many of Plath's fans blame the depression that eventually led her to suicide on Hughes's infidelity. Sylvia doesn't let Hughes off the hook, but it doesn't paint Plath as a helpless victim either. Paltrow's superb performance captures the poet's fierce jealousy and artistic ambition as much as her debilitating sorrow. The movie makes no big statements about Plath's poetry, letting the troubling details of her life tell their own compelling story. It also features Jared Harris, Blythe Danner and Michael Gambon, and the acting is outstanding all around. --Bret Fetzer Product Description A literary drama based on the real lives of two of the world's most famous poets, Sylvia Plath (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). The story begins at Cambridge University in the 1950s, where the two young poets meet at a party and fall passionately in love. They marry and move to the US, where Plath has been offered a teaching post, but Hughes' career is beginning to take off and cracks appear in their marriage as his talent begins to overshadow hers, and she finds it increasingly difficult to continue writing. They move back to the UK where they have two children, but when Hughes is unfaithful to Plath, she is bitterly jealous and angry; emotions that cause her to write some of her most brilliant poetry. Finally, the dark feelings take over and she commits suicide. The supporting cast includes Paltrow's real-life mother, Blythe Danner, as Sylvia Plath's mother.

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