Vita & Virginia

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Brian M @Siliwen 12h It is what it is, with a long suffering Herbert and Leonard, some nice old motors, interior shots of Turner’s Palm House at Kew and strange choice of background music…now to watch Orlando! See more Chofi T @RT06404061 01/27/2025 I loved it, it's my go-to movie when I'm down. I do find a lot of romantic tension on this one. When they have intimate scenes, emotionally and physically, it just crushes my heart and melts it :) See more tim k @RT42162214 01/10/2025 Can't make out 80% of what "virginia wolf" says her accent is so unclear. Can only make out about 50% of what the other characters say, and I'm english! How non-brits can understand a word of it I've no idea. Had to give up watching half way thru. See more Madalynn T @RT33089231 07/27/2024 I love this film dearly and utterly. Vita & Virginias relationship reminded me of my first love; beautiful at the time but had to come to an eventual end. See more Merrick S @RT51542740 01/11/2022 Virginia Woolf's rather scandalous personal life was a harbinger of today's obsessions with identity, sexuality, power, class, artifice and honesty. The script, based largely on her intimate communications with her lover, has an immediacy, poignancy, and intelligence almost entirely lacking in today's film. Absorbing and emotionally powerful. No superheroes or explosions--adult entertainment. See more 01/08/2022 I gave this movie 3 stars mainly for Elizabeth Debicki's portrayal of Virginia, which was illuminating, the cinematography, the incorporation of the letters (which were brilliant) and the Bloomsbury cast who were perfect. The absolute biggest disappointment was the casting of Gemma Arterton as Vita. I'm sure she is a competent actor but casting such a feminine, demur actor to portray Lady Vita Sackville-West is like casting Woody Allen to play Cary Grant. It could never work in a serious biopic. This casting was acerbated by the height difference between Arterton and Debicki; a difference that in reality did not exist. Vita's height is extremely important to the power and presence she had. The fact that this was the 1920s Vita - when according to Leonard she was at the peak of her virility and power - makes it even more horrible that they cast Arterton. Arterton's comical, silicone lips do not help and are testimony to the herculean acting skills that Debicki must possess to pull off such serious acting in their presence. It gets worse as the movie progresses as Arterton's Vita comes across merely as a bored, spoiled, suburban housewife who has a side hobby in writing. Lady Virginia Sackville-West belonged to one of the oldest noble families in Great Britain and all of the entitlement, power, poise that goes with that never appears in this film. Arterton's VIta is so passive that it makes the film's one sex scene seem totally implausible. At the end of the film one is left wondering how on Earth a genius, even one so brilliantly portrayed, could fall for this Vita. Again - just heartbreaking because this film would have been so good if not just for one disastrous casting error. See more Read all reviews

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