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Carrington (1995)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
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Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers, painters, and eccentrics that includes the likes of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, when she meets Strachey. A confirmed homosexual before meeting Carrington, Strachey inquires who the "ravishing boy" is

R, 2 hr.

Drama, Romance

Directed By: Christopher Hampton

Written By: Christopher Hampton, Michael Holroyd

In Theaters: Nov 10, 1995 Wide

On DVD: Dec 26, 2001

MGM Home Entertainment

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Cast

Emma Thompson
Dora Carrington
Jonathan Pryce
Lytton Strachey
Steven Waddington
Ralph Partridge
Samuel West
Gerald Brenan
Rufus Sewell
Mark Gertler
Penelope Wilton
Ottoline Morrell
Peter Blythe
Philip Morrell
Richard Clifford
Clive Bell
Alex Kingston
Frances Partridge
Janet McTeer
Vanessa Bell
Neville Phillips
Court Usher
David Ryall
Mayor
Christopher Birch
Dr. Starkey Smith
Jeremy Northam
Beacus Penrose

Critic Reviews for Carrington

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Cowardly and dull.

April 21, 2003 Comment (1)

Jeffrey M. Anderson

San Francisco Examiner

One of those pretty terrific movies that has somehow just fallen by the wayside in our collective cinematic consciousness.

August 26, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Jonathan Pryce dominates the film with his fussy and idiosyncratic performance as the outspoken homosexual and iconoclastic chronicler of 20th century excesses.

January 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

What's the point?

December 29, 2001 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

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Solid biopic about the artist. Great cast, beautiful music, and well-directed. Like many movies of this nature that are so introspective it's hard to completely portray what the characters are feeling and thinking, but there is one point during the middle of the movie where Carrington is sitting in the yard at night

April 30, 2010

Jeff B

The acting is very good, the story is interesting mostly, but it just isn't captivating. An insite into the lives of some of the British upper class during the first world war and into the sexual revolution that followed the end of the Victorian age. Well done, but not compelling.

May 28, 2008