Storyline
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
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Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Kavanagh, Michelle Fairley, Felicity Jones, Christos Lawton, Joanna Scanlan, Mark Dexter, Richard McCabe, Charlotte Hope, Tom Burke, Amanda Hale, Perdita Weeks, David Collings, James Michael Rankin, Michael Marcus, Laurence Spellman, Jonathan Harden, Claire Daly
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Reviews
100
A career high point for Ralph Fiennes as both an actor and director, this unfussy and emotionally penetrating work also provides lead actress Felicity Jones with the prime role in which she abundantly fulfills the promise suggested in some of her earlier small films.
100
So tastefully mounted and brilliantly acted that it wears down even the corset-phobic’s innate resistance to such things.
80
The Guardian
The Invisible Woman shies from propaganda just as Nelly shies from impropriety. Fiennes has done the right and proper thing here. He has, at 50, made a mature movie, prudent in the best possible sense.
80
Abi Morgan's script – better, for my money, than her work on either Shameor The Iron Lady – elegantly straddles two timelines to illuminate a deliberately obscured life
80
The movie deepens as Nelly, destined for the gossip columns and a peripheral attachment, becomes painfully aware of her own fragility (Jones’s performance is devastating).
