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Tristan + Isolde

[2006, Movie]

Tristan + Isolde: Review

Body heat: James Franco and Sophia Myles

Long before Jack and Ennis — before Romeo and Juliet, even — there was Tristan and Isolde, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose undying but forbidden love has inspired everyone from Richard Wagner to Dorothy Parker. Inspiration, however, isn't exactly the word behind this most recent telling: Director Kevin Reynolds isn't so much inspired as determined to tell it with period accuracy, without bothering to be historically accurate. A century after the fall of the Roman Empire, ... read more