I enjoy the qualities in myself that may be said to be masculine.” This stuff works well enough in the theatre. A look at California’s November ballot propositions. Still, this remains a handsome production bolstered by good performances up and down the dramatis personae. We feel that it may cast off its strait-jacket of a script – which really does feel like a play collaged from letters – and kick together dangerous cinematic energies. A love affair develops between author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf, inspiring one of Woolf's greatest works. Unfortunately Vita & Virginia always returns to Vanilla Street.

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Entranced by the genius of author Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), Vita sets out to infiltrate her bohemian group of artists and writers. At such points, the picture seems set to lunge into the cinematic unknown. Arterton and Debicki work very well individually but share no chemistry. How to vote. Arterton and Debicki are excellent actresses, but it was Button’s responsibility to pull them together as a director, and that just never happens. Psychological Infections: Brandon Cronenberg on Possessor, 8 Films to See at the Nightstream Virtual Film Festival, When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail: Jim Cummings on The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Ferdinando, First published: Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 05:00. You can find out more about BFI Flare on their website. For the more literary-loving viewers or biographical lovers, this film offers an amazingly beautiful insight into the relationship of two famous women who were both married, but who found a way to love and live within the constraints of their time. Isobel Waller-Bridge (yes, sister of Phoebe) contributes a pounding electronic score that yearns for greater deviation from Merchant-Ivory norms.

The film stars Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, and Isabella Rossellini. Directed by Chanya Button. Simply enter your email address in the box below, Two mismatched at Kew: Vita (Gemma Arterton) and Virginia (Elizabeth Debicki), Maybe Button’s aim is to show Vita and Virginia through a modern LGBT prism, but it misses the mark. Crime

Button shoots each woman reciting their letters in dreamy close-ups directly to the camera to create an intimacy that reaches beyond the page.