Basic Info
Title:
Carrington
Genre:
Biography, Drama, Romance
Country:
United Kingdom, France
Language:
English
Running
time: 120 minutes
Release
date: 22 September 1995 (United Kingdom), 10
November 1995 (United States)
Staff
Director:
Christopher Hampton
Produced by: John McGrath, Ronald Shedlo
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Music:
Michael Nyman
Cinematography:
Denis Lenoir
Edited
by: George Akers
Cast
Emma Thompson as Dora Carrington
Jonathan Pryce as Lytton Strachey
Steven Waddington as Ralph
Partridge
Samuel West as Gerald Brenan
Rufus Sewell as Mark Gertler
Penelope Wilton as Lady Ottoline
Morrell
Jeremy Northam as Beacus Penrose
Summary
“Carrington” is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington.
The screenplay for this film is
based on “Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography”, the biography of writer and
critic Lytton Strachey, written by Michael Holroyd.
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| Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey |
Dora Carrington, commonly known as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist who was born on March 29, 1893 and died on March 11, 1932.
She is also remembered for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, and especially with the writer Lytton Strachey among the members.
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| Virginia Woolf |
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| E. M. Forster, Dora Carrington (c.1924–1925) |
She
was not well known as a painter throughout her life because she had little
exhibitions and did not sign her own works.
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| Portrait of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington (1916) |
Movie
Review
“Brilliant Drama, about
love and suffering”
“Love in its many forms”
“Delicately portrayed
amorous eccentricity as only the British can do”
“Art for art's sake”
“A strange love affair
among the famous”
“Extremely well-acted”
“A Supreme and Pleasurable
Work of Art”
“One of the best movies
ever made”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. Christopher Hampton finally
directed the film with his script, which he had been working on since 1976, but
it was possible because Mike Newell, who had been appointed as the original
director, directed the film "Donnie Brasco (1997)" instead.
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| Donnie Brasco (1997) |
2. Emma Thompson previously played
a woman who falls in love with a gay man in "Peter's Friends (1992)."
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| Peter's Friends (1992) |
3. In late 2007, Steve Waddington
and Jeremy Northam appeared together again in the first season of “The Tudors”.
In the drama, Waddington played the Duke of Buckingham and Northam played
Thomas More, and the two were eventually beheaded by King Henry VIII.
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| The Tudors |
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