Carrington (1995)

Story of real-life English artist Dora Carrington and her relationship with author Lytton Strachey (wonderfully played by Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce).

The pair meet in 1915 and they feel an immediate kinship, despite the fact that he's a homosexual and she behaves and dresses enough like a male to be mistaken for one the first time Lytton sees her. They depend on each other fully, kind of carving out an odd marriage despite the fact that they get most of their sexual satisfaction from others.

Two complaints: it seemed to go on far too long -- a tighter 90 to 100 minutes would've helped -- and the extremely linear storytelling felt so dated that I guessed 1985 as its release year before I looked it up to add to the entry's title.

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