Iris

Iris

2001 · 91 min · EN · R · 6.4 (176 votes)
Dir. Richard Eyre · Starring Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Samuel West · Music James Horner
DramaRomance

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

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A poignant, deeply felt exploration of enduring love against the relentless tide of memory loss. It's a tender, heartbreaking look at a lifelong bond, beautifully rendered with quiet grace and profound emotional resonance.

melancholictenderheartbreakingnostalgicslow-burncharacter-driven dramabiographicalarthouselovememoryagingloss
new lovebased on novel or booklove of one's liferetireealzheimer's diseasepflegenagingloveauthorshort-term memoryphotographic memory
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