can you capture the moment . when first you hear rain on a roof . some thing be beyond the sum of their part and express the poetry of life . the thing that matter . poet dylan thomas capture the seemingly inexpressible a good poem help to . . . extend everyone knowledge and of himself and the world around him . ( bob dylan name himself after him ) . so why have it take so long to make a film of the great dylan thomas . a simple biopic could have miss the point . writer sharman macdonald have take a different and good approach . in the edge of love and she create the world of passion and complexity that fill the poem so we can swim in them . the life of four friend . dylan and who lust and love to the full . wife caitlin ( sienna miller ) and his feisty support . war hero william ( cillian murphy ) and who save him from a street brawl . and then there his childhood sweetheart . vera . dear vera . take your breath away vera . she caitlin close friend . william wife . and and like a muse and the tar in dylan dark sky . it all kick off in the 1940 london blitz and with bomb shelter in the underground . enter vera ( an impressive keira knightley ) under makeshift stage spotlight . she meet dylan for the first time again in year and her heart be flush . their eye shine through the smoke of the room . the purity of their former passion . dylan ( native welsh speaker and matthew rhys ) be no sanctified and sanitised poet . master of his vice he must experience them all fully . he introduce his beloved wife then continue to woo vera . the edge of love be a visual treat . the soundtrack leave you want for more . performance be possibly the best by these actor in their career . a a lush love story it pretty good . a an insight into dylan thomas and the reality of poetry in all our life and not bad at all . and a a tribute to a great man and inspiring . the production have be at pain to project the spirit of dylan thomas without compromise historical accuracy too much . dramatic tension involve a pull between artistic freedom and conventional morality . audience look for an experience base on the latter may be disappoint . and it will play less well to audience whose boundary be those of albert square . sharman macdonald seem aware of the headstrong nature of artistic freedom and it limit when she speak to producer rebekah gilbertson ( granddaughter of the real william and vera ) . think of all the thing that you do not want me to write about and she say and because i have to have carte blanche . for macdonald and the limit be if she should cause offence to dylan memory . but for many artist and especially men and the limit be those which wife and family could set on them . a woman be not go to let lofty ideal interfere with practical common sense issue and and will even put her child interest before her own ( this occasionally happen the other way round and a when tower genius virginia woolf refuse to let love leonard bring her down to earth in the hour ) . in spite of the tension between caitlin and vera and these two woman become close buddy . it be one of the main ( and very beautiful ) theme of the film . the film colour tell a story in themselves . in a drab and wartime britain and caitlin and vera be vivid highlight in an ocean of grey . shortly after meet vera light up in light stage persona and we encounter caitlin through her searing blue eye and sparkle in a darkened railway carriage . her dramatic red coat cut a dash through street of colourless homogeneity and triumph on a beautiful staircase a she reunite with dylan . but vera lipstick red brightness be less endure . for her and marriage be second best and even when she have become possess with genuine love for her husband . outstanding cinematography extend to use montage to juxtapose image and in a manner similar to poetry juxtaposition of unrelated word to create further meaning . horrific war scene in thessaly be intercut with scream of vera in pregnancy . give birth or be it abortion . we be not tell immediately . pain be universal and go beyond time and place to our present day . constant echo of dylan poetry throughout the film lead u beyond earthly opposite . it remind me of marlon brando read ts eliot in apocalypse now . a light beyond the horror of the world . a different way of see thing . i will take you back to a time when no bomb fell from the sky and no one die ever and say dylan to vera a they walk along the beach . elsewhere and caitlin recall childhood with vera represent be still innocent in dylan and she say . there a time to leave your knickers at home or share a universal cigarette . ( not literally and perhaps . ) a time to be inspire . enjoy what be possibly the best british film of the year .