

25/05/1995
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.

Emma Thompson
as Dora Carrington

Jonathan Pryce
as Lytton Strachey

Steven Waddington
as Ralph Partridge

Samuel West
as Gerald Brenan

Rufus Sewell
as Mark Gertler

Penelope Wilton
as Lady Ottoline Morrell

Janet McTeer
as Vanessa Bell

Jeremy Northam
as Beacus Penrose

Alex Kingston
as Frances Partridge

Richard Clifford
as Clive Bell

David Ryall
as Mayor

Stephen Boxer
as Military Rep

Peter Blythe
as Phillip Morrell

Sebastian Harcombe
as Roger Senhouse

Annabel Mullion
as Mary Hutchinson

Daniel Betts
as Porter

Mark Chapman
as Johnny Boy (uncredited)
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