VITA & VIRGINIA (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gemma Arterton (The Escape), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet), Rupert Penry-Jones (A Little Chaos), Peter Ferdinando (A Field In England), Gethin Anthony (Kodachrome), Emerald Fennell (The Danish Girl), Adam Gillen (4.3.2.1), Karla Crome (film debut), Rory Fleck Byrne (The Quiet Ones), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Dom Hemingway)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn), director, writer; Eileen Atkins (Mrs Dalloway), writer; Katie Holly (Love & Friendship) and Evangelo Kioussis (Petroleum Spirit), producers; Isobel Waller-Bridge (True Apaloosa), composer; Carlos De Carvalho (Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz), cinematographer; Mark Trend (Old Boys), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Debicki) crosses paths with enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Arterton), who decides that Woolf will be her next romantic conquest in a move that sparks a passionate relationship between the women…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Discover the whirlwind and scandalous love affair that inspired Virginia Woolf’s famous novel Orlando, with Elizabeth Debicki playing the author in question alongside Gemma Arterton as her determined lover.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 5TH JULY 2019

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