Hilary and Jackie

Pros: Splendidly moving story, Powerful performances, Beautifully filmed
Cons: Film sequences move back and forth in time and can be confusing

Virtuoso English cellist Jacqueline Du Pre died at the age of 42 from complications of multiple sclerosis. The 1998 film Hilary and Jackie is on based her biography, A Genius In The Family, written by Hilary Du Pre and her brother ...

Pros: music and acting (Watson, Griffith, Frain); provoking more interest in DuPré
Cons: seeming bias for the one whose name is first in the title

This biopic of the love and rivalry of two sisters is curiously unaffecting, though Rachel Griffith and Emily Watson in the title roles go all-out. The movie is based on the memoir of their cellist superstar sister Jacqueline du Pré by her surviving...

Pros: Exceptional performances, beautiful music, passionate story
Cons: Perhaps some bias from Hilary

Hilary and Jackie The movie is based on the book originally called “A Genius in the Family” written by Hilary and her brother Piers du Pre on the life of Jacqueline du Pre. It is a stunning piece of work, directed by Anand Tucker. Emily Watson ...

Pros: Excellent and enthralling in every way.
Cons: Others have complained the story is biased. But how many of us care?

American readers might be forgiven for supposing that HILARY AND JACKIE is about the wives of two philandering Presidents; but no. HILARY AND JACKIE (notice that Hilary is spelled with only one L) is a biopic of the famous du Pre sisters, both musical ...

Pros: -None of consequence.
Cons: -The callous, vicious, and possibly permanent maiming of Jacqueline du Pré's memory.

(Readers are advised to check out my reviews at IMDB and Amazon.com, which make the same points.) Arguably the greatest cello talent in modern history, Jacqueline du Pré was also the most tragic. At her height in the 1960s, concerts with her and ...

Pros: Rachel Griffiths, Emily Watson and the subject matter, Jacqueline du Pre
Cons: Not enough time allowed for a thorough absorption of the material.

Exceptional lives about extraordinary people always make good book and movie sense. The possibilities are limitless and the audience favours a bit of an inside peek at the lives of the rich and famous. This is the case with Hilary And Jackie, a film...

Pros: it's going to make you appreciate your life
Cons: sometimes these things hurt a little

The story of Jackie and Hilary du Pre is told through two windows. Jackie's life and Hillary's. It's the tale of sisterhood and what it means to be in love with someone over the short span of their life. It made me cry and cry and cry because all I could...

Pros: A good movie for those who may had similar situations to these two girls.
Cons: Sadly, the youngest sister dies as a result of a serious illness.

This movie is a story of these two sisters who grew up together and were inseparable. As children, they both developed an interest in playing the organ, but as they both reached adulthood, one of them was becoming more alive with herself than the other...

Pros: Oscar-nominated performances
Cons: Repetitive, heavy-handed screenplay

No, it's not that Hilary and it's not that Jackie - and not about First Ladies with philandering husbands. Instead, Anand Tucker's interesting, insightful film revolves around the real-life Du Pre sisters, child prodigies with remarkable musical...

Pros: complex plot, story from more than one side, amazing acting, deep character study
Cons: sometimes slow, somewhat depressing

I saw trailers for Hilary and Jackie some time ago in theaters. I thought it looked like the sort of movie I would enjoy. I didn't expect it to be a romp in the park and I certainly got what I was expecting.

The movie is very delicately...

Pros: Amazing performances; ingenious narrative structure.
Cons: Some arbitrary, distracting surrealism at the end.

Hilary (Rachel Griffiths) and Jacqueline (Emily Watson) du Pré are a sisterly pair of child musical prodigies: Hilary on the flute and Jacqueline on the cello. As an adult, Hilary gives up music to live a normal life; Jackie, on the other hand, embarks...

Pros: Magnificent performance by Emily Watson. Heartwrenching and powerful.
Cons: None.

HILARY AND JACKIE: Docu-drama. Studios tend to save their best films for the end of the year, when they will most likely be remembered for Oscars. "Hilary and Jackie", the heart-wrenching and powerful biography(s) of musical sisters Jacqueline...

Pros: great acting, score
Cons: heavy-handed scenario

Despite October Films’ questionable marketing strategy, the recently released "Hilary and Jackie" does not quite fit the bill as the newest installment in the line of musical art house movies such as "Shine" and "Mr. Holland’s...

Pros: quality writing, cinematography, soundtrack, acting, moving story, gripping characters
Cons: Initially slightly confusing

I recently rented Hilary and Jackie, remembering being interested in the movie when it hit art house theaters in Manhattan. I didn't remember exactly what the review said, but I knew the movie had music, passion, and was the story of two music...

Pros: 200
Cons: 6

The first time I watched "Hillary and Jackie", I had the same reaction as everyone: "What an emotional movie, pretty intense. I liked it!"

For those who didn't know the cellist Jacqueline du Pre, they could have thought...