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Effie Gray

2014

Richard Laxton

Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Claudia Cardinale, Russell Tovey ...

5.5

1,086

Drama. Romance A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

	Media	Author	Review
		Cath Clarke Time Out	"A thoughtful, well-acted and perceptive drama - but for a film about a love triangle, the sparks don't exactly fly (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"This admirable, watercolor-delicate tale of individual feminist emancipation never quite blooms into living color"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a little hammy and soapy, with an occasional Pythonesque sense of its own importance but this film, directed by Richard Laxton, is performed with gusto (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dan Callahan rogerebert.com	a handsomely designed period film with a screenplay by Emma Thompson that seeks to dramatize Ruskin’s unhappy marriage to a younger woman as a kind of feminist fairy tale (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"It boasts the production values of the best Merchant Ivory pictures but also has some of the same intensity and perversity that characterised Jane Campion’s The Piano."
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite a lurid plot involving sex scandal, family dysfunction and proto-feminist revolt, the end result is depressingly conventional"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The movie omits much of the story’s most interesting material to create something that’s been smoothly denatured"

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