The Invisible Woman (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Tom Hollander, Kristin Scott Thomas
Synopsis:
Charles Dickens, being possessed of a wife and large family, is attracted to a young actress and fan, whom he makes his mistress. She survives him and remarries, but carries her secret within her, but is tormented by it.
Review:
Uncommonly sensitive drama, so shorn of gratuitous period trappings as to transcend the obvious generic qualification. Fiennes foregrounds the girl Nelly's youth and discomposure so much that one is scarcely aware of any passion between the lovers, as if awe gives way to disillusion, but he is such a good actor that one understands his Dickens too. Whether one sees it as a paean to natural passion over social constraints, or as a homily for all the forgotten women who have been used and set aside without society caring one way or the other, may depend very much on one's own gender.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Tom Hollander, Kristin Scott Thomas
Synopsis:
Charles Dickens, being possessed of a wife and large family, is attracted to a young actress and fan, whom he makes his mistress. She survives him and remarries, but carries her secret within her, but is tormented by it.
Review:
Uncommonly sensitive drama, so shorn of gratuitous period trappings as to transcend the obvious generic qualification. Fiennes foregrounds the girl Nelly's youth and discomposure so much that one is scarcely aware of any passion between the lovers, as if awe gives way to disillusion, but he is such a good actor that one understands his Dickens too. Whether one sees it as a paean to natural passion over social constraints, or as a homily for all the forgotten women who have been used and set aside without society caring one way or the other, may depend very much on one's own gender.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Tom Hollander, Kristin Scott Thomas
Synopsis:
Charles Dickens, being possessed of a wife and large family, is attracted to a young actress and fan, whom he makes his mistress. She survives him and remarries, but carries her secret within her, but is tormented by it.
Review:
Uncommonly sensitive drama, so shorn of gratuitous period trappings as to transcend the obvious generic qualification. Fiennes foregrounds the girl Nelly's youth and discomposure so much that one is scarcely aware of any passion between the lovers, as if awe gives way to disillusion, but he is such a good actor that one understands his Dickens too. Whether one sees it as a paean to natural passion over social constraints, or as a homily for all the forgotten women who have been used and set aside without society caring one way or the other, may depend very much on one's own gender.