The Wings of the Dove

1997

Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 12415 12.4K

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Plot summary

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

Director

Iain Softley Photo
Iain Softley

Top cast

Helena Bonham Carter Photo
Helena Bonham Carter as Kate Croy
Linus Roache Photo
Linus Roache as Merton
Elizabeth McGovern Photo
Elizabeth McGovern as Susan
Charlotte Rampling Photo
Charlotte Rampling as Aunt Maude
720p.BLU
935.9 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Barry M 10 / 10

A deep exploration of the heart and how

A deep exploration of the heart and how it will have its way no matter what.
Reviewed by Ben D 8 / 10

This is a much better story — and

This is a much better story — and assumedly, novel — than the film we are given. Kate (Helena Bonham Carter) loves Merton (Linus Roache), who is a journalist without much money. Raised by her aunt (Charlotte Rampling), she is set to marry a man of means, Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Milly (Alison Elliot) is a young, rich American who is also terminally ill. If Kate and make Milly fall in love with Merton — who will feign loving her in return — it may so happen that Milly will bequeath Merton with her fortune upon her death and Kate can therefore marry Merton, made newly of means, thereby having her cake and eating it too. Set to a backdrop (mostly) of Venice, this is quite the devious and romantic early 20th-century story. And yet, I cared for little of the characters. Their “love” felt superficially and without sacrifice. Milly is endearing and lovely and the way her destiny is used to the ends of the other characters makes you not want to root for any of them. There is, perhaps, a predictable twist that may be one of the larger misfires I’ve witnessed in cinema. I had assumed HBC had received her Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actress and even then, I would have been surprised given that she goes missing for large stretches of the 102-minute runtime, but she was actually given a Best Actress nom, which is just farcical. This feels like a script that could be remade with more power and gravitas.
Reviewed by steve d 2 / 10

I hated the characters and thus the film

I hated the characters and thus the film.
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