Effie Gray (2014) (original) (raw)
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, the film tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray. At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin, but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake.
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, the film tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray. At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin, but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. (less)
Director: Richard Laxton
Writer: Emma Thompson
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Claudia Cardinale, Robbie Coltrane, Russell Tovey, Julie Walters
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Review by Brian Orndorf, April 2, 2015
5 / 10
With costume dramas, there�s a formula that always tempts filmmakers. Working within tea-and-dismissal confines, the lure is often societal rejection and domestic coldness, which delivers all the known beats of discouragement and ostracism fans of the genre have grown to love. Every once in a while, a movie will come along and find true heat under layers of clothing, and Emma Thompson was one of the few to trust 3D emotion in her screenplay for 1995�s �Sense and Sensibility.� �Effie Gray� returns Thompson to the overcast world of isolating English domesticity, and while the plot all but demand ...read more...
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