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Apr 1, 2015 · Effie Gray a feminist not-quite fairy tale. In Effie Gray, John Ruskin wanted to marry a child; he was disappointed when he found himself face-to-face with a grown woman, with sexual needs, agency, and feelings. It’s an interesting reversal.
The disgusted Victorian newlywed in Effie Gray —conceived by Thompson as a feminist fairy tale—is the art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise). He takes one look at his naked bride, Euphemia (Dakota Fanning), on their wedding night in 1848 and flees the bedchamber.
Apr 2, 2024 · Narration compares Effie Gray’s story to a fairy tale. While some may find Thompson and Laxton’s take on the material to be overly feminist, I found it refreshing. There was also quite a bit of comparison to fairy tales – Ruskin did write Effie one after all.
Apr 3, 2015 · A handsomely designed period film with a screenplay by Emma Thompson that seeks to dramatize John Ruskin’s unhappy marriage to a younger woman as a kind of feminist fairy tale.
Apr 2, 2015 · ★★★. Because despite all its art theory and corsets, “Effie Gray” is a powerful look at early feminism. Instead of accepting her fate in a bad marriage like many Victorian women advised her to...
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Apr 3, 2015 · Effie Gray was a real life young women wed to infamous art critic, John Ruskin. With dreams of entering a love filled marriage, Effie was thrown into high society under an overbearing mother-in-law and a frigid husband.
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Gray and Ruskin's different personalities were thrown into sharp relief by their contrasting priorities. For Gray, Venice provided an opportunity to socialise while Ruskin was engaged in solitary studies.
