Vita & Virginia

Based on Eileen Atkins’s 1993 play, this film captures the fabled romance between the introverted bohemian socialist author Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and the wealthy extroverted socialite and writer Baroness Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Fascinated by the enigmatic and beautifully willowy Woolf, Sackville-West strives and eventually succeeds at drawing her into an extremely tumultuous sexual love affair. And though Vita’s attentions were fleeting, their relationship inspired the creatively fertile period for Woolf that produced the modernist classic Orlando.

Directed by Chanya Button.