Movie Screening: Vita and Virginia by Chanya Button

 This blog is a response to the movie screening task assigned by Vaidehi Hariyani ma'am.

Directed by	Chanya Button
Written by	Eileen Atkins Chanya Button
Based on	Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins
Produced by	Evangelo Kioussis Katie Holly Shashank Shambharkar
Starring	Gemma Arterton Elizabeth Debicki
Cinematography	Carlos De Carvalho

Vita & Virginia is a 2018 biographical romantic drama film directed by Chanya Button. The screenplay, written by Button and Eileen Atkins, is adapted from the 1992 play Vita & Virginia by Atkins. This film is set in the 1920s, Vita & Virginia tells the story of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Set in the 1920s, the writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf move in different London circles. When they meet, Vita decides Virginia will be her next conquest. They have an affair against the background of each of their open marriages.

How far do you feel that Orlando is influenced by Vita and Virginia’s love affair? Does it talk only about that or do you find anything else too?

Orlando: The Biography and the movie Vita and Virginia have many things in common but that does not mean that Woolf wrote the biography keeping in mind their relationship. There are many elements which point towards that direction but that's only partly. There is another reason that Woolf was inspired to write Orlando when Sackville-West took her to Knole, to show her the place where she had grown up, that had belonged to the Sackville family for centuries, and as Sackville-West bitterly noted she would have inherited if only she had been born male.