Another glittering, radiant, scintillating masterpiece with Emma Thompson.
The story of Carrington haunts me to this day.
The soundtrack to this film is also dazzling.
This movie will put all your most deepest, forbidding, fearful feelings about love to the test.
I just wish this film would have focused less on Strachey's career and more on Carrington's. She was a very famous painter in her day, and the film portrays her as more of Strachey's servant than anything else. I know that was done to illustrate the selfless love she had for him, but I'm thinking the film should have been called "Strachey" rather than "Carrington".
shareI agree...I wish it focused more on her career as well. She was a bit too (putting it mildly) subservient to him...that's the biggest problem I had with the film. However, I have warmed up to it much moreso, over time (particularly since one of my first postings about it on this board). I liked it a lot. Rather lost souls.
shareI think some people have sort of an attitude about Dora Carrington. I first read of her in <i>A Book Of One's Own</i>, about people's diaries down through history, describing her as "a confused young painter of some talent who stumbled onto the fringes of the Bloomsbury circle" like she didn't know what she was doing. "He gently educated her and she worshipfully nursed him." Or something like that. Like she was some kind of dumbhead who was a rank beginner at painting. I didn't get the same feeling from this picture at all, but it failed to emphasize just how successful she was in her lifetime. That's rare for an artist, especially a lady artist.
Let's just say that God doesn't believe in me.
Carrinton really did not have a "career" with her art - although I agree she was very talented. Lytton always wanted to arrange a show of her paintings in London, but as it shows in the movie, she painted for herself and friends, not for money.
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D. Carrington was to put it mildly an eccentric. Did it follow that this quirkiness would eventually develop into a psychosis (born out by the ending)?
With only modest knowledge of background information before viewing this I think it was a surprise. Maybe those who have read about her with greater detail would have seen the progression in the film much more logically than I did.
If you remember the scene where she hand him the bit of cloth that has the words "Use Me" written on it, she also said that's what she wanted from him. She wanted to be subservient to him in a way, thinking who knows what. . .. that perhaps that would draw them together? She has her strengths but she had her weakness to . . . him.
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