'Vita and Virginia' is a love story of the friendship and affair between writer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Their paths cross in Bloomsbury in 1922 when Vita receives an invitation from Virginia. Their romance overcomes all social boundaries, Virginia's mental health struggles, and Vita's recklessness, and neither will ever be the same without the other.... (Full plot summary below)
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'Vita and Virginia' is a love story of the friendship and affair between writer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Their paths cross in Bloomsbury in 1922 when Vita receives an invitation from Virginia. Their romance overcomes all social boundaries, Virginia's mental health struggles, and Vita's recklessness, and neither will ever be the same without the other.
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| Chicago TribuneKatie WalshThis peek into a famous love story makes the audience a participant in the affair, inspiring questions of perspective and truth in love and art, where the only truth worth anything is one deeply felt. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt is a film of (somewhat) mutual admiration and clever, clever words, the product of “a wickedly brilliant mind” (Woolf) and a popular poettess and wit, descended from Gypsies (Isabella Rosellini plays Vita’s disapproving Gypsy grande dame mother), a “a sapphist” with scandalous appetites. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaThe film is truly gorgeous and interesting for fans of literature. |
| VarietyJessica KiangAs Vita & Virginia loses its girlishness, drawn like the tides to the solemn maturity of Debicki’s performance. With her as the lodestar, this is a stranger and more intriguing film than it really has a right to be, one that becomes less about a clandestine courtship between famous women, and more about Woolf’s relationship with her writing, and with the workings of her own beautiful, restless mind. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThe drama – featuring the kind of flat, chirruping upper-middle-class English accents that aren’t usually voiced on screen – is intriguing and uncompromisingly high-minded, right on the laugh-with/laugh-at borderline, but interestingly unafraid of mockery. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungPrecious little is revealed and one is left with the feeling that the material needed a different kind of treatment to illuminate its protagonists. |
| San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerWere “Vita” better developed and edited, one might find joy in its rejection of the patriarchy. But the female-friendly dialogue relies too heavily on exposition. Nobody asks if anyone wants a cup of tea. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Martha SchabasIt’s light research, worn heavily, and the romance that ensues feels just as about as studied and slight. |
| Slant MagazineDerek SmithThe film frequently falls back on the stately demeanor of countless other historical biopics and period pieces. Read our review. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloOnce Sackville-West gets bored with Woolf and starts seeing another woman, garden-variety jealousy takes over. Not quite as fascinating as the story of a man who inexplicably metamorphoses into a woman and doesn’t age for 300 years. |
