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Carrington

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.

1995 |2h 1m |  History, Drama, Romance

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Cast

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Emma Thompson

Dora Carrington

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Jonathan Pryce

Lytton Strachey

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Steven Waddington

Ralph Partridge

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Samuel West

Gerald Brenan

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Rufus Sewell

Mark Gertler

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Penelope Wilton

Lady Ottoline Morrell

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Janet McTeer

Vanessa Bell

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Jeremy Northam

Beacus Penrose

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Alex Kingston

Frances Partridge

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Richard Clifford

Clive Bell

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David Ryall

Mayor

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Stephen Boxer

Military Rep

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Peter Blythe

Phillip Morrell

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Annabel Mullion

Mary Hutchinson

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Daniel Betts

Porter

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Status

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Language

English

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