Do you like this life? Constantly on show. Constantly watched.
Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens' passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of 'invisibility'.
Directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and rising talent Felicity Jones. Based on the book by Claire Tomalin.
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Academy Award nominated for Costume Design by Michael O'Connor.
BAFTA nominated for Costume Design by Michael O'Connor.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Joanna Scanlan
Director:
Ralph Fiennes
Producers:
Stewart Mackinnon, Gabrielle Tana, Christian Baute, Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Screenplay:
Abi Morgan
Executive Producers:
Sharon Harel, Maya Amsellem, Eve Schoukroun, Stefano Ferrari, Christine Langan, Jamie Laurenson
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Credits summary:
±«Óãtv Films and BFI in association with WestEnd Films present A Headline Pictures and Magnolia Mae Films Production
Certificate:
12A
Running time:
111 mins
Released
7 February 2014
Out on DVD
16 June 2014
Broadcast on
22 October 2016