
Wednesday February 4th 2015
UK 2013, 97 minutes
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens.
A true story about the Lamorna Group, a wild and bohemian colony of artists who settled in Cornwall at the start of the 20th century. One of its more flamboyant members, A.J. Munnings, (later to become president of the Royal Academy) is strongly attracted to newcomer Florence Carter Wood. She becomes both his pupil and his model. Gilbert Evans, the land manager of the Lamorna estate, also falls for Florence, and the scene is set for a tumultuous love triangle. Filmed entirely on the Cornish coast, it is a visually beautiful film but becomes haunting and heartbreaking as the Great War inexorably approaches.