Vita & Virginia

Completed2018United Kingdom, Ireland110 min

Vita Sackville-West moves through literary society with a confidence that both attracts and unsettles Virginia Woolf. Already an admired…Read more +Read less −

Vita Sackville-West moves through literary society with a confidence that both attracts and unsettles Virginia Woolf. Already an admired novelist, Virginia is interested in the visitor’s energy but wary of being drawn into someone else’s orbit. Their meetings and correspondence develop into an affair conducted within the complicated understandings of their marriages and the conventions of 1920s England. This intimate period drama places writing and desire beside one another, exploring how an encounter can become material for an artistic reinvention. Rather than treating romance as a retreat from creative life, it follows the ways attraction, jealousy and friendship enter the work itself. The women’s connection becomes part of the imaginative world from which Woolf’s Orlando will emerge.

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Gemma Arterton

as Vita Sackville-West

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1986-02-02Aquarius

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Elizabeth Debicki

as Virginia Woolf

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1990-08-01Leo

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Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Language: English
Premiere: 2019-07-19
Runtime: 110 minutes
Director: Chanya Button

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Last researched 2026-10-30. Editorially approved.

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