Carrington

Carrington (1995)

Genres - Drama, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature], Period Film, Romantic Drama  |   Release Date - Nov 8, 1995 (USA), Nov 10, 1995 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 121 min.  |   Countries - France, United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Don Kaye

Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers, painters, and eccentrics that includes the likes of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, when she meets Strachey. A confirmed homosexual before meeting Carrington, Strachey inquires who the "ravishing boy" is and discovers that it's a woman. Shocked to discover this, he finds himself captivated by her, and they begin an unusual 17-year love affair/friendship. Strachey (most famous for the groundbreaking book Eminent Victorians) and Dora eventually move in together and have a series of offbeat sexual experiences with other members of the group and sometimes even with the same man; at one juncture, Dora even marries another man. Yet their relationship endures until Strachey's death years later. Pryce was honored as Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance.

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relationship, homosexual, love, nonconformity, painting, writer, artist

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High Artistic Quality