Iris
2001
This dual-timeline biopic chronicles the life of novelist Iris Murdoch, moving between her vibrant intellectual youth and her painful decline into Alzheimer's disease in old age, as seen through the eyes of her devoted husband John Bayley. Judi Dench and Kate Winslet both play Murdoch at different stages in an emotionally powerful portrait of a remarkable mind fading away.
Director
- Richard Eyre
Cast
- Judi Dench
- Jim Broadbent
- Kate Winslet
Filming Locations
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Southwold
Southwold's beach and seafront were used for poignant seaside scenes, one of the most heart-touching sequences in the film being shot on Southwold beach, a favourite haunt of the real Iris Murdoch.