Women in Love: The World to Come Is Filled With the Wild Excitement of Romance
Women in Love: The World to Come Is Filled With the Wild Excitement of Romance
Vanessa Kirby is utterly magnetic in director Mona Fastvold s 19-century historical drama focused on the desire between women
K. Austin Collins, provided by
March 7, 2021
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You smell like biscuits. Of all the details comprising Tallie and Abigail’s first kiss in Mona Fastvold’s
The World to Come, this reaction, which comes from Abigail, may be the most surprising and disarming moreso, even, than the fact that it’s a kiss between two married women in 19th-century America. It’s a covert but not wholly unexpected gesture between wives whose passions seem only to spring to life while their husbands are away. It’s a surprising line, in part, for containing so much.