Vita & Virginia

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Audience Member I loved it, it's my go-to movie when I'm down. I do find a lot of romantic tension on this one. When they have intimate scenes, emotionally and physically, it just crushes my heart and melts it :) Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/25 Full Review tim k Can't make out 80% of what "virginia wolf" says her accent is so unclear. Can only make out about 50% of what the other characters say, and I'm english! How non-brits can understand a word of it I've no idea. Had to give up watching half way thru. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Audience Member I love this film dearly and utterly. Vita & Virginias relationship reminded me of my first love; beautiful at the time but had to come to an eventual end. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/27/24 Full Review Merrick S Virginia Woolf's rather scandalous personal life was a harbinger of today's obsessions with identity, sexuality, power, class, artifice and honesty. The script, based largely on her intimate communications with her lover, has an immediacy, poignancy, and intelligence almost entirely lacking in today's film. Absorbing and emotionally powerful. No superheroes or explosions--adult entertainment. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/11/22 Full Review Audience Member I gave this movie 3 stars mainly for Elizabeth Debicki's portrayal of Virginia, which was illuminating, the cinematography, the incorporation of the letters (which were brilliant) and the Bloomsbury cast who were perfect. The absolute biggest disappointment was the casting of Gemma Arterton as Vita. I'm sure she is a competent actor but casting such a feminine, demur actor to portray Lady Vita Sackville-West is like casting Woody Allen to play Cary Grant. It could never work in a serious biopic. This casting was acerbated by the height difference between Arterton and Debicki; a difference that in reality did not exist. Vita's height is extremely important to the power and presence she had. The fact that this was the 1920s Vita - when according to Leonard she was at the peak of her virility and power - makes it even more horrible that they cast Arterton. Arterton's comical, silicone lips do not help and are testimony to the herculean acting skills that Debicki must possess to pull off such serious acting in their presence. It gets worse as the movie progresses as Arterton's Vita comes across merely as a bored, spoiled, suburban housewife who has a side hobby in writing. Lady Virginia Sackville-West belonged to one of the oldest noble families in Great Britain and all of the entitlement, power, poise that goes with that never appears in this film. Arterton's VIta is so passive that it makes the film's one sex scene seem totally implausible. At the end of the film one is left wondering how on Earth a genius, even one so brilliantly portrayed, could fall for this Vita. Again - just heartbreaking because this film would have been so good if not just for one disastrous casting error. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member It was...strange. The choice of soundtrack being the weirdest thing, which I understand was supposed to add a certain effect but to me it just didn't fit at all. Elizabeth Debicki played Virginia perfectly but Gemma Arteton's portrayal of Vita just irritated me. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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