The Wings of the Dove

1997

102 mins

Directed by Iain Softley
85%
78%
Drama
Romance

Helena Bonham Carter delivered an Academy Award-nominated performance in Hackers director Iain Softley's adaptation of Henry James' 1902 novel.

Kate (Carter)... More

Helena Bonham Carter delivered an Academy Award-nominated performance in Hackers director Iain Softley's adaptation of Henry James' 1902 novel.

Kate (Carter) is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher (Linus Roache). But she knows her Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling) 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 (Alison Elliott) traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

The film also earned Oscar nominations for its adapted screenplay, cinematography and costume design.

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The Wings of the Dove | Ratings & Reviews

85_%34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
78_%5,624 reviews
Audience score rating

"In The Wings of the Dove, there is a fascination in the way smart people try to figure one another out. The film is acted with great tenderness."

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Roger Ebert

"Visually the film impresses... Pacing is crisp... Dialogue is often caustically witty, and the relations clearly delineated."

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Variety

"The difference is that Iain Softley, who directed Wings of the Dove, and his screenwriter Hossein Amini, who wrote the overlooked "Jude," are keen observers who bring a wealth of ambiguity and mystery to the surface -- and release their characters from the cliches that easily could have swallowed them."

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