Effie Gray (film)
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Film poster, featuring Fanning with Millais' painting Ophelia behind her.
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| Directed by | Richard Laxton |
| Produced by | Andreas Roald Donald Rosenfeld |
| Written by | Emma Thompson |
| Starring |
Dakota Fanning Emma Thompson Greg Wise Tom Sturridge |
| Music by | Paul Cantelon |
| Cinematography | Andrew Dunn |
| Edited by | Kate Williams |
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Sovereign Films
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| Distributed by | Metrodome Distribution |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $368,609 |
Effie Gray is a 2014 British biographical drama film directed by Richard Laxton.
Its subject is the love triangle involving Victorian art critic John Ruskin (played by Greg Wise) his wife Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning) and Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge). Emma Thompson also appears in the film as Elizabeth Eastlake.
The film's initial release was delayed by lawsuits alleging that the script, written by Emma Thompson, was plagiarised from earlier dramatisations of the same story. The cases were won by Thompson.
In a pre-credit sequence Effie Gray is seen walking through a garden speaking about a fairy story in which a girl married a man with wicked parents. After the credits, the marriage of Effie to John Ruskin in Perth, Scotland is seen. The couple travel to London to stay with his parents. Effie soon begins to feel isolated, especially as she is repeatedly belittled by John's mother. Her distress is compounded by the fact that her husband shows no interest in consummating the marriage and refuses to discuss the subject.
At the Royal Academy of Arts, John and Effie attend a dinner at which there is heated debate about the new Pre-Raphaelite movement in art, which John supports. John convinces Sir Charles Eastlake, the president of the academy, to allow the young artists to exhibit their pictures. Effie attracts the attention of Sir Charles' wife, Elizabeth. When the Eastlakes visit the Ruskins, Elizabeth sees how distressed Effie is in the repressive atmosphere of the Ruskin family.
Effie hopes that matters will improve when they travel to Venice, where John will be researching his new book The Stones of Venice. But when they get there, John busies himself studying the many historic monuments of the city, leaving Effie in the company of Rafael, a young Italian. Effie enjoys the city life, but is distressed when Rafael nearly rapes her. Her husband seems oblivious to the situation.
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