From my favorite movies..

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

a film escaping to definitions. because it is an example of...magic. for impeccable performances of Judy Dench and Kate Winslet. for the essence of Alzheimer. for the portrait of an unique writer. for tension and for cruelty and for dialogue and for atmosphere and for something who, for long time, remains fresh in the memory of viewer. it is not easy to say why "Iris" represents more than a good adaptation or a great movie. maybe, because it is a story from yourself. or a mirror. for the references to the first meet with the style of Iris Murdoch. and for the remember of our extreme fragility. short, a film entirely remarkable.

The movie was a little long range, with many flashback in to Iris past. It was nice to have see how her life was when she was younger, where she writing and was a person who lived a very free life, without depending on any one. In the movie, are there were many collections from before she was ill, which she was known, had very different for large vocabulary, but also that she loved to write. After she became ill with Alzheimer's she knew not how she was going to write. One of the flashback, are shown many times in the film is when they ate out and cycling, where John, Iris husband, yells after her that she needs to slow down because he cant keep up with her. I think that the flashback describes much of the films idea about how that relationship is. Because he constantly, is after her, and falls just into her lifestyle. If one thinks of when she is healthy, he does what she says and does to adapt into her everyday life, even when she gets sick. It is also him who suits her, and his everyday life is going to fit into how she did it. The movie describes well have it is to have the Alzheimer disease.

Iris is a biographical picture that tells a true story of British novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. It contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch was an outgoing, dominant individual as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley, and their their old age,when Murdoch was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and tended to by a frustrated Bayley in their North Oxford home in Charlbury Road.This film stars Judi Dench as Iris,Kate Winslet as the young Iris,Jim Broadbent as John and Hugh Bonneville as the young John.The screenplay was written by Richard Eyre and Charles Wood Bayley's memoir "Elegy for Iris" and it was directed also by Richard Eyre.The story is told wherein the young Iris Murdoch meets fellow student John Bayley at the University of Oxford, he is a naive virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. It also tells in parallel their life decades later, little has changed and the couple keeps house, with John doting on his more famous wife when Iris begins experiencing forgetfulness and dementia.However, the devoted John struggles with hopelessness and frustration to become her caretaker, as his wife's mind deteriorates from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.This is a touching film about two people who love each other and it gives us insights the pain and suffering that people undergo when stricken by Alzheimer's disease and the pain experienced by the people surrounding them.The performances of all four actors are worthy of praise especially Judi Dench,who captured the older Iris.The only thing about it that it failed to get a perfect rating is that the film isn't powerful and compelling enough to make it a great film.But regardless of the reason stated,Iris is a highly recommended for everyone who like great romantic stories.

Pretty standard biopic about author Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench) and her struggle with Alzheimer's.There are no complaints with the film's acting, which in addition to Dench's performance includes an Oscar-winning portrayal of Murdoch's loyal husband (played by Jim Broadbent) and extended glimpses of Murdoch's younger self (played by Kate Winslet). But performances aside, the film never rises above the level of fair, mostly because it's just too safe and too reminiscent of a million other biopics about famous artists.Dench and Winslet were also Oscar nominated, only the second time that two different actresses received nominations for playing the same character in the same film (the other being "Titanic," which also starred Winslet in the "younger self" role -- how's that for obscure trivia?) Grade: B