Effie Gray (2014)
Storyline
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Directors
Cast
Dakota Fanning, Nicholas Jones, Pip Torrens, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Emma Thompson, Patrick Doyle, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, James Fox, Greg Wise, Linda Bassett, Tom Sturridge, Russell Tovey, Joanna Hole, Riccardo Scamarcio, Claudia Cardinale, Polly Dartford, Tom Herriott, Sam Churchill, Martin Keatman, Chris Haggart, Alex Best, George Laing, Peter Farr, Nicola Draffan, Saskia Keatman, Kelly Healey, Frida Baranek, Tigerlily Hutchinson, Iain Marshall
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Reviews
88
Slant Magazine
It spins the narrative of one of the Victorian art world's most mysterious marriages into a study of life lived and life merely examined, a fecund fairy tale in reverse.
60
It’s a thoughtful, well-acted and perceptive drama. However, for a film about a love triangle the sparks don’t exactly fly.
60
Richard Laxton’s painterly film combines the gothic shadows of Hitchcock’s Rebecca with the gut-wrenching romance of A Royal Affair. The result is dark and offbeat, but as a murky anti-romance, Gray is undeniably effective.
60
The Telegraph
There are clever and sensitive touches right through, and a moving ending. But Fanning seems wholly uncomfortable, and not always intentionally.
60
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.
