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Vita & Virginia takes a well-acted and initially intriguing look at the relationship between its real-life protagonists, but is undone by unsatisfying storytelling.
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Maybe dramatizing their correspondence would have worked if it had been paired with convincing dialogue. Nov 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Maybe dramatizing their correspondence would have worked if it had been paired with convincing dialogue.
Martha Schabas
This peek into a famous love story makes the audience a participant in the affair, inspiring questions of perspective and truth in love and art, where the only truth worth anything is one deeply felt. Sep 10, 2019 | Full Review…
This peek into a famous love story makes the audience a participant in the affair, inspiring questions of perspective and truth in love and art, where the only truth worth anything is one deeply felt.
Katie Walsh
It's never a good sign for your rulebreaking romance when the occasional bits of dialogue between wayward wives and their sad husbands is more human, more feeling, and more emotionally intelligible than that between the lesbian lovers. Sep 6, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
It's never a good sign for your rulebreaking romance when the occasional bits of dialogue between wayward wives and their sad husbands is more human, more feeling, and more emotionally intelligible than that between the lesbian lovers.
Matthew Lickona
The movie's editing undermines both lead performances. Scenes end abruptly, or seem set up for a moment that never arrives. Sep 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The movie's editing undermines both lead performances. Scenes end abruptly, or seem set up for a moment that never arrives.
Carla Meyer
Based on what we see here, the work was almost absurdly greater than the inspiration. Sep 4, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Based on what we see here, the work was almost absurdly greater than the inspiration.
Ty Burr
It hardly makes for scintillating cinema, even given the whiff of scandalousness with which Button and Atkins lay out the stages of Vita and Virginia's relationship. Sep 4, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
It hardly makes for scintillating cinema, even given the whiff of scandalousness with which Button and Atkins lay out the stages of Vita and Virginia's relationship.
Michael O'Sullivan
Vita & Virginia just can't overcome its faults and succumbs to being another well-made period piece that misses its mark. Jan 18, 2020 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Vita & Virginia just can't overcome its faults and succumbs to being another well-made period piece that misses its mark.
Catherine Springer
Never mind the class struggle, mental illness, or heteronormativity at every corner: Chanya Button's film can't figure out which way to look. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
Never mind the class struggle, mental illness, or heteronormativity at every corner: Chanya Button's film can't figure out which way to look.
Matt Cipolla
For those who remember The Hours or Sally Potter's Orlando, this is a terrific companion piece. Dec 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
For those who remember The Hours or Sally Potter's Orlando, this is a terrific companion piece.
James Croot
It's an insufferable venture that completely misses the mark, despite the strong material at its foundation that begs to be explored. Oct 25, 2019 | Full Review…
It's an insufferable venture that completely misses the mark, despite the strong material at its foundation that begs to be explored.
Jak-Luke Sharp
For many the film will ultimately succeed or fall on Elizabeth Debicki's depiction of Woolf as a wanly frail creature, forever on the verge of falling apart. Oct 17, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
For many the film will ultimately succeed or fall on Elizabeth Debicki's depiction of Woolf as a wanly frail creature, forever on the verge of falling apart.
Lynden Barber
The film finds greater depth and dimension in its side romances than in the one placed front-and-center. Sep 19, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The film finds greater depth and dimension in its side romances than in the one placed front-and-center.
André Hereford
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