2 new posters for The Edge of Love

(click for full view)

Alex Bilmes, GQ: Miller is hugely affecting as Caitlin: a tempestuous combination of blowsy and vulnerable, jaded and hopeful. And Knightley is luminous as the beloved Vera, beautifully shot by Maybury and his cinematographer, Jonathan Freeman. When we first meet her character, she’s singing for a crowd in a tube station while the Blitz rages outside. It’s a fantastic sequence – Knightley’s face in close-up is as transporting and iconic a cinematic image as one could hope to see in 2008.

Sasha posted a clip in June of the exquisite moment described above. Directed by John Maybury (HBO’s Rome), Cinematography by Jonathan Freeman (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio), scored by the brilliant Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet — and just about every other David Lynch film), and costume design by April Ferry, Emmy-winner for Rome, and Oscar nominee for Maverick (no, not that Maverick.)

Opens in the US, March 2009. International poster after the cut (I believe it’s Romanian, but if that’s wrong I’m sure we’ll soon hear about it.)

::::::: PLOT SUMMARY WITH PLENTY OF SPOILERS :::::::

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She’s working as a singer whilst he’s churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognizes a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous. (IMDb)

Keira Knightley … Vera Phillips
Sienna Miller … Caitlin MacNamara
Cillian Murphy … William Killick
Matthew Rhys … Dylan Thomas