![]() ![]() Fanning does a fine job of portraying a woman who's beaten down and then learns to stand up, and Emma Thompson lights up the screen in a small role as Effie's sole ally, but the two acresses aren't enough to make Effie Gray watchable. When Ruskin wished to dissolve their short marriage, he noted to his lawyer that Effie was. A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray. There's just no light in this movie, no joy. Gray was the young bride of art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise). Though they perhaps echo the subject material, the drab, underlit interior shots and dreary exterior scenes - especially during an extended sojourn in Scotland - fail to make the heart quicken as it should. It doesn't help that this period drama looks perpetually dismal and dark. A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning). We feel for her - it's difficult not to empathize when her husband is such an awful beast - but we get so little insight into why he is the way he is that we stop caring why. Desperate to be freed from John, Effie embarks on a life-changing journey to become one of the first women in history to seek a divorce from her husband. ( Spoiler alert: She eventually worked up the nerve to leave her spouse, with whom she lived with unhappily.) But Effie Gray, the film, starts with what could have been a classic love triangle tale but instead becomes an uninspired, laboriously told one. ( Spoiler alert: She eventually worked up the nerve to leave her spouse, with whom she lived with unhappily.) But Effie Gray, the film, starts with what could have been a classic love triangle tale but instead becomes an uninspired, laboriously told one. Effie Gray, the historical figure, is a real-life tragic character with a feel-good ending. Effie Gray, the historical figure, is a real-life tragic character with a feel-good ending. ![]()
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