Effie Gray

Screening Dates:
Fri 10 October 6:15pm
Sat 11 October 12:00pm
Sun 12 October 2:00pm
Mon 13 October 8:45pm
Tue 14 October 6:15pm
Wed 15 October 11:00am
Wed 15 October 2:30pm
Wed 15 October 6:15pm
Thu 16 October 8:30pm

Director: Richard Laxton
Cast: Emma Thompson, Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise

It’s been a long time coming, but Emma Thompson’s incisive screenplay about the troubled relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise, Sense And Sensibility) and his teenage bride Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray (Dakota Fanning, The Twilight Saga) proves well worth the wait.

Thompson herself plays author Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, who supports Effie through a scandalous court case that turns on the question of whether the Ruskins’ loveless marriage has been consummated.

With the Crimean War gnawing away in the background, and an exceptionally strong cast that includes Robbie Coltrane, Derek Jacobi, Claudia Cardinale, and Tom Sturridge (On The Road) as the Pre-Raphaelite Millais – with whom Effie falls in love – Effie Gray confirms director Laxton (An Englishman In New York) as a master of cinematic biography.