Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this movie tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning). At nineteen, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated, Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Dame Emma Thompson). After five years trapp... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this movie tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning). At nineteen, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated, Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Dame Emma Thompson). After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian society.
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| Slant MagazineMatt BrennanIt spins the narrative of one of the Victorian art world's most mysterious marriages into a study of life lived and life merely examined, a fecund fairy tale in reverse. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerOn a purely technical level, Effie Gray is fine, if uninspired, with its washed-out color, attention to detail, and lack of heavy-handed moralizing. As an experience, though, it’s a drag without much reward. |
| OregonianJeff BakerThe movie is slow, dreary, clumsily staged, and lacks a compelling lead. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerWise, who is noticeably older than the 29-year-old Ruskin was at the time the events occurred in real life, gives a tense, implacable performance, and Fanning is touching. The movie, however, directed by Richard Laxton, could use a lot more oomph. |
| Radio TimesTrevor JohnstonThe film generates potent, often claustrophobic drama while never losing our sympathy for the fragile, resilient Effie. |
| Seattle WeeklySean AxmakerAppearances are everything in Effie Gray, a film that pushes tasteful restraint to extremes. |
| San Francisco ExaminerAnita KatzAs a female-predicament drama containing art, history, romance and nice scenery, Effie Gray is intelligent, interesting and engrossing. |
| leonardmaltin.comLeonard MaltinA skilled cast fails to lift a morbidly recounted true tale... |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaEffie Gray is peculiarly compelling, even if the issue of sexual repression, all the Victorian manners, seem light-years gone and close to unfathomable. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonVisually voluptuous, though the pacing occasionally suggests watching a Pre-Raphaelite dry. |
