![]() ![]() However, for a film about a love triangle the sparks don’t exactly fly. It’s a thoughtful, well-acted and perceptive drama. Ruskin (played by Thompson’s husband Greg Wise) didn’t want a wife he wanted a painting, beautiful but silent. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the charismatic John Everett Millais. ![]() ![]() Gray’s 1848 betrothal to famed English art critic John Ruskin. The story follows Effie Gray, married at the tender age of 19 and who quickly realises her marriage is a lie when John Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Dakota Fanning, David Suchet, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise. Turner, the enthralling Effie Gray 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. Although Thompson doesn’t dwell too much on the wedding night, she deftly demonstrates the difficulty of marriage in an age when women were idealised as angels of virtue. Though it lacks the high rigor of Mike Leigh’s near-contemporaneous Mr. The marriage was annulled on the grounds that it was never consummated. Romance Inglaterra: era victoriana, con 19 años Eufemia 'Effie' Gray se ha casado con el historiador de arte y crítico John Ruskin, pero se niega a consumar su matrimonio. Dakota Fanning plays Effie, who finally left Ruskin in 1853 after falling in love with his protégé, the painter John Millais (Tom Sturridge). Effie Gray 2014 Richard Laxton Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Claudia Cardinale, Russell Tovey. This intelligent British drama, written by Emma Thompson, dramatises the Ruskins’ marriage. 681 IMDb 6.0 1 h PG-13 Drama Romance Emotional Passionate Available to rent or buy Rent HD 3.99 Buy HD 14. No, if most people know anything about Ruskin, it is the legend of his wedding night, when he was so disgusted by his teenage wife Effie’s pubic hair (he learnt everything he knew about the female form from bush-less paintings) that he couldn’t bring himself to have sex with her, ever. Effie Gray explores the famous real-life Victorian love-triangle between art critic John Ruskin, his young bride Effie Gray, and famed artist John Everett Millais. Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise and Robbie Coltrane star in David Suchet's movie. When young Effie Gray becomes the wife of John Ruskin, it soon becomes apparent that Ruskin regards her as a muse rather than a wife. He will forever be remembered not as the greatest Victorian art critic, the man who single-handedly rescued pre-Raphaelite painters from starvation in drafty garrets. Effie Gray, film review: Emma Thompson's story of John Ruskin's wife is bleakly fascinating. ![]()
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