Vita & Virginia Trailer: First Look At Love Affair Between Two Literary Icons

July 15, 2019

IFC Films has released the official trailer for their upcoming romance drama Vita & Virginia, featuring our first look at the true love affair between two literary icons Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Starring Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Their Finest) and Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), the film will have its theatrical release in select theaters on August 23 and is scheduled to be released on VOD on August 30. Check out the video in the player below!

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.

The film is a celebration of their unconventional bond while being a reminder that only genuine connection makes life worth living. Vita & Virginia is a timeless love story, told in a contemporary style, about two women who smashed through social barriers to find solace in their forbidden connection.

Chanya Button directs from a script she co-wrote with Dame Eileen Atkins. The film also stars Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones and Peter Ferdinando and is produced by Evangelo Kioussis for Mirror Productions and Katie Holly for Blinder Films. Executive producers are Simon Baxter, Christopher Figg, Nicolas Sampson, Norman Merry, Dave Bishop, and Gemma Arterton. Protagonist Pictures are handling International sales.

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The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

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