Iris

Cellar Door

November 22, 2001

Return

Saw Iris last night. Dame Judy Dench and Sam Mendes' new squeeze take turns playing the great Iris Murdoch.

Supremely depressing.

Should Alzheimer's strike me just put a baggie over my head and have done with it.

Horrible for anyone to die this way, but the spectacle of a first-rate mind being ground to dust is almost unbeaable.

As her devoted husband, Jim Broadbent gives the performance of his career.

See it, but don't say you weren't warned.

 

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