Overview

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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Cast

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