The Heart of Me is a 2002 British period drama film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams.

Set in London before and after World War II, it depicts the consequences of a woman's torrid affair with her sister's husband.

Madeleine is and has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister, but whose mother, Mrs. Burkett, acknowledges her faults but plainly admires her - though not as much as her departed father did.

Realising it, however, she seems unperturbed, as if it is common knowledge and nothing to hide from Madeleine - despite the obvious hurt her more serious daughter feels upon hearing it spoken aloud so blatantly.

Several more months pass and the lovers eventually meet again when Dinah is leaving the apartment that was being financed by Rickie, and he discovers that she had been there the entire time and not in France.

In his review Roger Ebert wrote: "Many of the complaints have to do with the fact that the characters are wealthy and upper class and speak English elegantly.

This is the same kind of thinking that led Jack Warner to tell his producers, "Don't give me any more pictures where they write with feathers."