IFC Films has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming romantic period drama Vita & Virginia. Written and directed by Chanya Button, the film stars Elizabeth Debicki as writer Virginia Woolf and Gemma Arterton as her lover Vita Sackville West, alongside a cast that also includes Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, and Peter Ferdinando; watch it here…
Set amidst the bohemian high society of 1920s England, Vita & Virginia tells the scintillating true story of a literary love affair that fueled the imagination of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers. Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) is the brash, aristocratic wife of a diplomat who refuses to be constrained by her marriage, defiantly courting scandal through her affairs with women. When she meets the brilliant but troubled Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), she is immediately attracted to the famed novelist’s eccentric genius and enigmatic allure. So begins an intense, passionate relationship marked by all-consuming desire, intellectual gamesmanship, and destructive jealousy that will leave both women profoundly transformed and inspire the writing of one of Woolf’s greatest works.
Vita & Virginia is set for a limited theatrical release on August 23rd, followed by a VOD release on August 30th.
Originally published July 15, 2019. Updated July 16, 2019.
