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Effie Gray (2014)

Drama | 108 minutes
2,69 62 votes

Genre: Drama / Biography

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Richard Laxton

Stars: Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson and Tom Sturridge

IMDb score: 6,0 (7.215)

Releasedate: 8 March 2014

Effie Gray plot

"The Celebrity Scandal of the Victorian era."

Effie is based on the true love story between Victorian artist, architect, poet and political thinker John Ruskin and his wife Effie Gray. Their bad marriage left Effie a virgin until she remarried to Ruskin's protégé, the painter John Everett Millais.

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Euphemia 'Effie' Gray

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The true story draws you in well. You feel the frustration, powerlessness and sadness right through the screen. And let me put it this way: if you are depressed you should not watch this movie.

Still, I don't vote high. It is absolutely not a love story between Effie and the young painter. It's more like the film adaptation of a complete marital drama. In a film, when it mentions that it is about forbidden love, I expect a little more passion and action. It muddles along a bit.

If I was in the cinema for this I would definitely be disappointed.

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Lavrot

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A film that passes by excruciatingly slowly, and which you as a viewer have to "sit through," as if you were having the powerlessness of the suffocating marriage shoved down your own throat. Yet as a viewer you remain an outsider, witnessing a horrific abuse. The only moment where emotion comes to light is when Effie tells her story to Lady Eastlake, who does a great job of portraying the impact of her situation.

Just beautiful pictures do not make for a good film and even the acting was almost completely wrong, but if the makers keep the viewer at a distance (in the cold) with such a moving theme, then something has gone seriously wrong somewhere.

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Roger Thornhill

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Bizarre mismatch where it is particularly problematic for the title character that this all takes place in the Victorian era; in that respect she can count herself lucky that Lady Eastlake, the doctor and the lawyer are all on her side. A fascinating (if not entirely compelling) plot, an incredible cast in leading and supporting roles, Greg Wise who also strongly resembles Ruskin in images from the period, and the well-known English thoroughness in sets and costumes - it's all very well put together , and the weird marital situation does the rest.

I think it is a minor flaw that, towards the end, during her tête-à-tête with Lady Eastlake, Effie tells what Ruskin has added to her; those are her words, but the viewer does not get to see those scenes and those conversations, so we have to trust that they actually took place. From Ruskin's previous statements to both Effie and Everett we can conclude that that is probably the case, but I still think that Thompson and Laxton should also have shown and heard the offending words.

Nice quote from Thompson's script: Ruskin about Effie, in response to her mother, who has just lost another child: "Her mother loses children with such ghastly regularity, I think she realizes it would hardly register with me. The woman is positively barnyard in her breeding habits, she can hardly expect them all to survive. – Look at that exquisite leafage!”

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