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Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar

  • TV Movie
  • 2018
  • 59m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018)
BiographyDocumentary

The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hu... Read allThe story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.

  • Director
    • Teresa Griffiths
  • Stars
    • Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Tristine Skyler
    • Frieda Hughes
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    • Director
      • Teresa Griffiths
    • Stars
      • Maggie Gyllenhaal
      • Tristine Skyler
      • Frieda Hughes
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Tristine Skyler
    Tristine Skyler
    • Self
    Frieda Hughes
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's Daughter
    Perry Norton
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's school mate
    Betsy Wallingford
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's school mate
    Karen Kukil
    • Self - associate curator of special collections at Smith College Libraries
    • (as Karen V. Kukil)
    Heather Clark
    • Self - author of 'The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes'
    Neva Sachar
    • Self - former guest-editor at Mademoiselle magazine
    Laurie Glazer
    • Self - former guest-editor at Mademoiselle magazine
    J. Melvin Woody
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's friend
    Janet Rosenberg
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's friend
    Elinor Klein
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's friend
    Philip McCurdy
    • Self - Sylvia Plath's school mate
    Ted Hughes
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Ina Marie Smith
    Ina Marie Smith
    • Reader of letters and journals
    • (voice)
    Deborah McBride
    • Other Voices
    • (voice)
    Willow Nash
    • Other Voices
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Teresa Griffiths
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    7changwei3037

    Well made but incomplete

    I was amazed by the quality of the documentary and enjoyed the film very much. It provides a clear look into Sylvia Plath's youth and early life without avoiding some issue that seems a little bit intimate. It also illustrates the social environment, the condition, and general sense of the time when she grown up in the 50's. Generally speaking an informative and intriguing document. The only thing that bugs me is the ending and how the relationship between her and Ted Hughes was presented. I do know there are these conflicting views between the two sides of the Atlantic ocean, and there is this view that her suicide is the result of a more deeper, pervasive psychological issue, but simply stating that "her marriage with Ted Hughes has ended" without any detail is strikingly incomprehensible. I couldn't quite understand how an event which has such a fundamental psychological impact on one's life can be (probably) intentionally ignored in such a context. But maybe, just maybe, we don't have to mention that because we all know what happened?

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    • Release date
      • August 11, 2018 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Sylvia Plath - inuti glaskupan
    • Production company
      • Yeti Media
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      59 minutes
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