Carrington
"Sexy, provocative, intelligent, exciting and classy filmmaking." -NBC-TV
Written and directed by Academy Award® winner Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and starring Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) and Jonathan Pryce (Evita), Carrington is an "emotionally complex, moving" (Los Angeles Times) tale of lifelong love with unorthodox compromises, that is utterly enthralling entertainment!
Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London' famed Bloomsbury group, Dora Carrington (Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere. The unlikely pair joyously spends colorful days pursuing their arts - and discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught in a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and only soul mate forever?
Member Reviews
It Seemed Slow - WongFamily
I gave it half an hour, and I was not clear on what the conflict or goal of the characters were. I suspect that people who liked the movie probably read the summary/description.
Usually, I try to avoid to reading the summary/description, and start with fresh perspective. Zip.ca recommended this DVD based on what we watched, and I borrowed it from the public library. I don't think that it was worth our time. The other family members didn't like it either.Lovely film. - heatherc
I quite enjoyed the film. It's an engaging story about the lives of writer Lytton Strachey (of the Bloomsbury group, a circle that included the likes of Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster), and painter Dora Carrington.
You get the sense, watching the film, that you would have liked very much to be friends with Carrington and Lytton...that you would have liked to have been invited for tea or walks around the countryside, or only to sit and listen to them talk.
Worth watching.Subjects unworthy of excellent treatment. - Zanna
This a wonderfully made, beautifully acted flim about some silly, not very interesting and not very nice people. Performances by Emma Thompson (always good) and Joathan Pryce (this is his best to date) are quite extraordinary. Cinematography is somewhat eccentric but memorable and it never hurts to have lots of English countryside with lovely gardens, waterfalls etc. etc. The problem is that Dora Carrington was basically an empty-headed no-talent painter. Lytton Srachey, who wrote one very good book (maybe two), was otherwise a tedious, neurotic poseur. They and their retinue, who had the morals of tomcats, came from privileged circles where it was naughtily fashionable to be "cutting edge" and "progressive". Easy for them. If this extremely well-made movie had been about people we would care for, it would have been a masterpiece. Giving it 4 stars for acting and productions values.
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It Seemed Slow - WongFamily
I gave it half an hour, and I was not clear on what the conflict or goal of the characters were. I suspect that people who liked the movie probably read the summary/description.
Usually, I try to avoid to reading the summary/description, and start with ...Lovely film. - heatherc
I quite enjoyed the film. It's an engaging story about the lives of writer Lytton Strachey (of the Bloomsbury group, a circle that included the likes of Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster), and painter Dora Carrington.
You get the ...Subjects unworthy of excellent treatment. - Zanna
This a wonderfully made, beautifully acted flim about some silly, not very interesting and not very nice people. Performances by Emma Thompson (always good) and Joathan Pryce (this is his best to date) are quite extraordinary. Cinematography is somewhat eccentric ...