Rent The Invisible Woman (2013)
3.0 of 5 from 188 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
- Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly. He is a brilliant amateur actor, a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens' passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of "invisibility".
- Actors:
- Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott-Thomas, John Kavanagh, Tom Attwood, Susanna Hislop, Tom Burke, Tommy Curson-Smith, David Collings, Michael Marcus, Perdita Weeks, Richard McCabe, Gabriel Vick, Mark Dexter, Joseph Paxton, Sophie Russell, Christos Lawton, Gwendolen Chatfield, Charissa Shearer, Amber Batty
- Directors:
- Ralph Fiennes
- Producers:
- Christian Baute, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Stewart Mackinnon, Gabrielle Tana
- Writers:
- Abi Morgan, Claire Tomalin
- Others:
- Michael O'Connor
- Studio:
- Lionsgate Films
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/06/2014
- Run Time:
- 111 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Cast and Crew Interviews
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Reviews (6) of The Invisible Woman
What the Dickens? - The Invisible Woman review by NC
Fiennes does the acting thing, again, very well. Not sure how factually based the film is, but is pretty credible. Like the Holmes film, is part BBC supported, so their attention to detail and period shines through.............still object to paying more than my car tax to BBC each year as a form of enforced taxation. Never watch any BBC, so why should over half the populace pay for the other half??
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Beautiful ... - The Invisible Woman review by EM
Not what we were expecting at all. The story kept us riveted until the very end.
OK - the writer does take a couple of liberties with the story - but hey, this a film not a BBC 4 docu biography. The acting is wonderful, the cinematography rich and the lighting suitably atmospheric.
Yes, I agree that you have to keep your wits about you when the flashback happen - but the film is hoping that we are intelligent enough to pick up on that.
Very enjoyable and worth watching.
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Very slow, dull, boring film - The Invisible Woman review by PV
I love Charles Dickens - I am a great fan of his novels and world-view - so I was looking forward to this film. But oh my goodness what a slog it all was.
SO slow - due to 1) a flat script by BBC golden girl Abi Morgan who always focuses on women's interest and portrays women as victims (only she could write a movie script about Mrs Thatcher which did not feature politics at all, but focused on Mrs T as A WOMAN...zzzzzz....); and 2) very dull direction by R. Fiennes which seems to prove the axiom that actors shouldn't direct.
I was yawning and looking at my watch long before this finished.
The script is also confusing and switches back to flashback when Dickens was alive from the 'present' in 1883, 13 years after his death, at random. Moreover, I do not believe the feminist angle imposed on this tale by the writer (who has decided to misrepresent history and show Mrs Dickens as a victim harshly treated when the evidence shows she was just a typical Victorian wife and happy enough). The stuff about Great Expectations being related to Dickens' affair is entirely Morgan's invention.
Very disappointing and boring. One star - but a half a start more for the views of Kent and Gad's Hill, and the good costumes and make-up.
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