Overview
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Cast
- Emma Thompson as Dora Carrington
- Jonathan Pryce as Lytton Strachey
- Steven Waddington as Ralph Partridge
- Samuel West as Gerald Brenan
- Rufus Sewell as Mark Gertler
- Penelope Wilton as Lady Ottoline Morrell
- Janet McTeer as Vanessa Bell
- Jeremy Northam as Beacus Penrose
- Alex Kingston as Frances Partridge
- Richard Clifford as Clive Bell