Holds your interest as a visually correct period drama casting several veterans of many among them Emma Thompson, Greg Wise, Derek Jacobi, Julie Walters and Claudia Cardinale. The story on the surface has merit. An impotent man marries beneath his station a young bride he traps in a gloomy gilded cage. Once several good samaritans separately believe they can help her adjust without losing everything she schemes a path which will make her a rebel Victorian society. She historically challenge her husband's exalted place in the community herself again changing locale and socioeconomics hoping for a better life. An enticing true story not in my opinion well scripted by Emma Thompson which seems the reason the general audience and critical reaction is not higher.
Review of Effie Gray
