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Summary: Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question... (imdb)
Like so many films, this rather "quaint" and touching film descends into farce towards the end, with your stereotypical baddies robbing graves and so many co-incidences occurring that credibility goes out the window. As a work of fiction, parralleling 2 love affairs 150 years apart, it is different enough to be interesting, but, and I hate to say it, Paltrow is really unconvincing .... Eckhart is excellent, and frankly, he should move on, Paltrow would bore him to tears
Inert adaptation of a complex novel, too genteel in tone to convey either the rivalries and excitements of literary discovery or the overpowering emotions of hidden love.
Adored this movie, and never understood why it was so underrated. I thought Neil LaBute did a great job adapting a sprawlingly complex novel, which I also adored. Paltrow and Eckhart seemed well-matched to me, although they weren't as hot as their parallel young lovers in the past, played by Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.
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