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- Watch Effie Gray | Netflix Trapped in a loveless marriage, the young wife of Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin finds herself falling for an artist — and looking for a way out.
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Trapped in a loveless marriage, the young wife of Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin finds herself falling for an artist — and looking for a way out. Watch trailers & learn more.
Effie Gray is a 2014 British biographical film written by Emma Thompson and directed by Richard Laxton, starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, David Suchet, Derek Jacobi, James Fox, Claudia Cardinale, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, and Robbie Coltrane, in his final film appearance before his death in 2022.
Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this movie tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning). At nineteen, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage.
- (7K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Richard Laxton
- 2014-10-10
Mar 26, 2015 · There’s no truly delicate way to put this, so here it is: Effie Gray is a movie about a man who refuses to have sex with his wife. That’s the story. Why Ruskin never engaged in sexual congress...
Dec 3, 2020 · Written by the imitable Emma Thompson and directed by celebrated Richard Laxton, watching Effie Gray feels like walking hand in hand with both madness and the titular character, the newly Mrs. John Ruskin.
Oct 9, 2014 · The film, which boasts the first original screenplay written by Emma Thompson, examines the troubled relationship between eminent Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his younger wife Euphemia ...
Apr 3, 2015 · A handsomely designed period film with a screenplay by Emma Thompson that seeks to dramatize John Ruskin’s unhappy marriage to a younger woman as a kind of feminist fairy tale.
