"The Edge of Love" gets a release date

The Edge of Love — a biopic about the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, starring Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller and scripted by Knightley's mother, Sharman Macdonald — will be the opening night film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18. It will open in London two days later, and then across the U.K. June 27.

Lindsay Lohan was originally attached to star in Miller's role, and back in 2006 she told MTV: "[Keira] is older than me, but she kind of has a mysterious relationship with my lover. And then there's somewhat of a lesbian undertone."

While one doesn't have to define a friendship between women as lesbian, one is certainly free to notice subtext. Since this article mentions that there are scenes where Keira and Sienna share a bed and a bath together — and since the film's openly gay director, John Maybury, has described the movie as "a really beautiful love story between the two girls" — I'm hoping that the bond between them may turn out to be something like the relationship between Helena Bonham-Carter and Alison Elliott in the excellent 1997 film The Wings of the Dove. An emotional connection that, even if not overtly sexual, is ultimately as complex and interesting as the relationships they share with men.

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