Directed
and starring Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN is the
latest period movie I saw. It is an adaptation of Claire Tomaline's book of
the same name.
It was released in 2013, it hasn’t made it to Italian theatres so far, but it is fortunately already available on DVD.
The invisible
woman of the title is Ellen Ternan , played by Felicity Jones,
seen as Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey 2007 or more recently in
Hysteria. Ellen, Nelly, was a beautiful young actress with
whom Charles Dickens had a secret
13-year affair and who was 27 years his junior.
Abi Morgan (Shame) adapted Claire Tomalin‘s novel. Tom Hollander , as the author Wilkie
Collins, Kristin Scott Thomas, as Nelly's mother, Tom Burke (The Musketeers) as
Ellen’s husband, George Robinson, are also in the cast.