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Article: Unrequited passion in an age of pyjamas
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 21, 1995
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CARRINGTON Christopher Hampton (18)
The playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton's first film
as a director, Carrington, a project he originated almost 20 years
ago, is a slyly entertaining but also moving look at thwarted
passion in an age of pyjamas. This is amour fou English style,
where the heroine's reaction, seeing her beloved dancing with
another, is to say with perfect tenderness, "I wish he'd worn his
pullover."
The film is named for Dora Carrington, but could not exist
without the presence of Lytton Strachey, whom she met in 1915, or
indeed without Jonathan Pryce, who plays the part. This is a great
and subtle piece of comic acting; Pryce bears no particular
resemblance to ...