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Carrington

Movie·1995·History, Drama, Romance·2h 1m·6.2 (70)·Directed by Christopher Hampton

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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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Emma ThompsonEmma ThompsonDora CarringtonJonathan PryceJonathan PryceLytton StracheySteven WaddingtonSteven WaddingtonRalph PartridgeSamuel WestSamuel WestGerald BrenanRufus SewellRufus SewellMark GertlerPenelope WiltonPenelope WiltonLady Ottoline MorrellJanet McTeerJanet McTeerVanessa BellJeremy NorthamJeremy NorthamBeacus Penrose

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