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Apr 3, 2015 · A handsomely designed period film with a screenplay by Emma Thompson that seeks to dramatize John Ruskin’s unhappy marriage to a younger woman as a kind of feminist fairy tale.
Apr 1, 2015 · Effie Gray a feminist not-quite fairy tale. In Effie Gray, John Ruskin wanted to marry a child; he was disappointed when he found himself face-to-face with a grown woman, with sexual needs, agency, and feelings. It’s an interesting reversal.
The disgusted Victorian newlywed in Effie Gray—conceived by Thompson as a feminist fairy tale—is the art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise). He takes one look at his naked bride, Euphemia (Dakota Fanning), on their wedding night in 1848 and flees the bedchamber.
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Apr 3, 2015 · ‘EFFIE GRAY’ is a true story of a Victorian feminist. Posted on April 3, 2015 by Liz Whittemore — Leave a reply. Courting is essentially a thing of the past in today’s society. In the Victorian age, it was the norm. Women joined the family of their husband and were better seen and not heard.
Apr 2, 2024 · Narration compares Effie Gray’s story to a fairy tale. While some may find Thompson and Laxton’s take on the material to be overly feminist, I found it refreshing. There was also quite a bit of comparison to fairy tales – Ruskin did write Effie one after all.
Apr 2, 2015 · Director Richard Laxton (“Burton and Taylor”) and screenwriter Emma Thompson retell the saga of Effie Gray’s suffering under and eventual escape from her eccentric husband, this time as a more...
Oct 14, 2014 · There’s presumably more heated drama behind the screen than there is upon it in “Effie Gray,” a literate, lovingly mounted and exceedingly well-behaved historical biopic that has sidled into...
