Vanessa Kirby uncovers lesbian pioneer history in The World to Come AFP 2/10/2021 AFP © Alberto PIZZOLI British actress Vanessa Kirby won Venice festival honors and is considered a frontrunner for the best actress Oscar
Vanessa Kirby shot to global fame as young Princess Margaret in The Crown, winning plaudits for her sultry and tragic portrayal of the British queen s headstrong younger sister.
In The World to Come, out Friday, the English actress plays another complex and passionate woman grappling with the impossible pressures and conventions of her era this time, the 19th-century US frontier.
The movie follows two farmers wives trapped by a brutal winter in pre-Civil War America, with only their neglectful husbands for company, until an unexpected and forbidden affair develops between them.
Vanessa Kirby, lesbienne révoltée dans The World to Come
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Abigail, the protagonist of The World to Come, keeps a diary, which, along with thoughts laid down in her letters, provides the narration for this film, set in 1856 in rural upstate New York, and centering on the unhappily married wife of a dour farmer named Dyer (Casey Affleck). When Abigail (Katherine Waterston) mentions that she d like Dyer to pick up an atlas for her when he next rides into town - she s saved up 90 cents of her own money - he suggests that it might be better spent on buying him a gift.
Chang-rae Lee on Elena Ferrante, Luster, and the Book He s Re-Read the Most ELLE 3/02/2021 Riza Cruz © Illustration by Mia Feitel and Yousra Attia The Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and author of My Year Abroad, takes our literary survey.
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