
Carrington
A love story so unusual it has to be true.
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5/25/1995Runtime
121 minsOverview
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.
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A tender, intricate portrait of unconventional bonds that defy simple definition: a love story that blooms across the impossible spaces between desire, devotion, and the question of what it means to truly share a life with someone. It moves at the pace of emotional discovery rather than plot, inviting you into the private world of a complicated triangle that feels both painfully real and eternally unresolvable.
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Emma Thompson
Dora Carrington

Jonathan Pryce
Lytton Strachey

Steven Waddington
Ralph Partridge

Samuel West
Gerald Brenan

Rufus Sewell
Mark Gertler

Penelope Wilton
Lady Ottoline Morrell

Janet McTeer
Vanessa Bell

Jeremy Northam
Beacus Penrose

Alex Kingston
Frances Partridge

Richard Clifford
Clive Bell

David Ryall
Mayor

Stephen Boxer
Military Rep
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