Carrington (1995)

Director:	Christopher Hampton
Actors:	Alex Kingston, Jonathan Pryce, Emma Thompson, Jeremy Northam, Rufus Sewell, David Ryall, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton, Janet McTeer, Sebastian Harcombe, Richard Clifford, Steven Waddington, Peter Blythe, Stephen Boxer, Annabel Mullion

Carrington tells the story of people who tried, in their own way, and at a time when society did not encourage such experiments, to acknowledge openly what most of us are aware of but still reluctant to discuss: that great many differences exist between love and desire. It is a sharp winter's afternoon when writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) - apparently a committed gay - makes the journey from this world to that of Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (Janet McTeer) and her husband Clive (Richard Clifford) on the south coast of England. Gazing from a window into the garden beyond - he is transfixed by a boyish figure whose golden bobbed hair catches firelights in the dying rays of the lowering sun. A figure he takes to be a beautiful young man; a figure he comes to know as the wild young painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson). As they walk along the cliff-tops of the south coast, they hear the rumble of guns in France and to that music form a bond of deep affection that will mark their lives for the next seventeen years.