ANY movie that features Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller tak ing a bath together while talking about sex in adorable Welsh accents has its charms.
In the reasonably engrossing drama “The Edge of Love,” the two beauties play rivals for the affections of the pride of Wales, Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), during the World War II bombing of London.
Knightley, who plays a childhood sweetheart of the drunken wordsmith, pairs up with an army officer (Cillian Murphy) who is headed back to the front, while she strikes up a close friendship with Thomas’ wife, Caitlin (Miller).
Despite the wartime atmosphere and the potentially dangerous love rectangle, director John Maybury never quite manages to make the stakes seem high, and the script written by Knightley’s mother, Sharman Macdonald, is somewhat fuzzy around the edges. But the movie makes for an engaging enough period piece.
Running time: 106 minutes. Rated R (profanity, violence, sexual situations). At the Angelika, Houston and Mercer streets.