Effie and Millais' romance seems to develop out of a mutual disdain for John Treated by her husband, not to mention the way he is treated by him as Party than a romance because Millais feels sorry for the way Effie is With John Everett Millais, played by Tom Sturridge, is portrayed as more of a pity Seems to imply he might be a pedophile, since he and Effie were at least familiar with one another when she was 12 years old, and obvious it wasn't in the biblical sense since her virginity was still intact by the time she turned 25. Quarter of the film, we come to understand that Effie's husband John is a distant, cold, oppressiveĪsshole who doesn't want to have sex with her. Sitting in the theater for over 3 hours at the pace this film moves. Long at 1 hour and 48 minutes, it just feels like it is, and you'd swear you were On with nothingness on top of nothingness. Minutes, we were hoping it would all be over soon, but it just drags on and As a women's studies major and as feminists, we both should have been excited about a movie with a such a powerful outcome for its time, but alas, we were not, and this film has very little redeeming value apart from one or two scenes where you want to root for Effie for the things she has done but can't because you're so bored out of your gourd. "Effie Gray" is just that, a series of painfully dull interactions that makes us question the state of our existence as humans since women were treated so poorly. One of these dramatic period pieces comes out, there's always a little bit of apprehension that it will contain little more than meaningless stuffy interactions. Period piece films are almost always aptly and expertly cast, but that doesn't mean what the actors have to work with is either good or necessarily worthy of our time. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, but "Effie Gray" is not one of them. Please don't roll your eyes at us! We don't know why, but they always strike us as dull and boring. Since this was the last week it would be at our theater, we figured, why not?Īll this being said, we're just going to come out and say it: it's hard for us to watch period pieces. We had maybe seen the trailer for this film once many months ago, and from then, put it out of our minds since it didn't strike us as the kind of thing people would be flocking to cinemas to see. She quickly falls into despair as John is distant, treats her poorly and refuses to be intimate with her in any way.Īs we've mentioned many a time on our blog, we try to go into all movies with an open, unclouded mind. A young Scottish woman named Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning) marries a wealthy British art critic named John Ruskin (Greg Wise).
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