Cast

Emma Thompson Jonathan Pryce Steven Waddington Samuel West Rufus Sewell Penelope Wilton

Credits

Written by: Christopher Hampton

Plot

The story of the painter Dora Carrington and her devoted, unrequited love for the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, in the Bloomsbury circle, in a sad, subtle drama.

Sinekatalog’s take

A sad and subtle Bloomsbury drama, with Emma Thompson.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (6,244 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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