Carrington

Carrington
by Christopher Hampton

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Actor: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West, Steven Waddington
Director: Christopher Hampton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Platonic Passion
Summary: 5 Stars

"Carrington" is an excellent period movie starring Jonathan Pryce as Bloomsbury author Lytton Strachey and the luminous Emma Thompson as the painter Dora Carrington. The lifelong friendship of Strachey and Carrington was at once passionate and complicated. Lytton is smitten with Dora at first sight, thinking she's a boy. Soon, the boyish Dora and the effeminate Lytton are kissing passionately, sharing the same bed--yet never consummating it. Dora is as close as Lytton ever gets to heterosexuality, even on his deathbed, he says he wanted to marry her. They were soulmates.

"Carrington" shows Dora's numerous lovers,from the troubled artist Mark (Rufus Sewell), to the manly Rafe (Steven Waddington),who sleeps with both Dora and Lytton, to Gerald, and then the handsome,hunky sailor Beacus (Jeremy Northam). Lytton and Dora have a bond that many straight women and gay men have--they see things in a similar way. There's a deep understanding.

"Carrington" is melancholy, especially with the music of Michael Nyman. The final scenes are wrenching, between Lytton's final illness and death, and Dora's suicide. "Carrington" is an excellent, powerful period piece.

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Written and directed by Academy Award?(r) winner* Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and starring two-time Academy Award?(r) winner** Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) and Jonathan Pryce (Evita), Carrington is an "emotionally complex, moving" (Los Angeles Times) tale of lifelong love with unorthodox compromises, that is utterly enthralling entertainment! Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London's famed Bloomsbury group, DoraCarrington (Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere. The unlikely pair joyously spends colorful days pursuing their artsand discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught within a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and onlysoul mate forever? *1988: Adapted Screenplay, Dangerous Liaisons **1995: Adapted Screenplay, Sense and Sensibility; 1992: Actress, Howard's End

Life among the Bloomsbury group in post-Victorian England, as seen through the relationship between writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce in a well-wrought, if mannered performance) and painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson). Carrington won't give herself to any of the men in her life (including her husband)--at least not emotionally. Instead, this woman has found her soulmate in Strachey, a homosexual who, in fact, has a crush on Carrington's husband. They try to maintain a friendship outside their various romantic liaisons but keep winding up with each other. Still, despite an intriguing performance by Pryce and a cooler, less accessible one by Thompson, this film never quite takes off. Once you get the point--that this is a love that will never be consummated--you begin to wonder if, in fact, there is a larger point to be had. There isn't. --Marshall Fine

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