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Completed - ENGLISH - Drama

Log Line

The passionate and moving story of the love affair between Charles Dickens and his mistress Nelly Ternan. For both secrecy was the price, for Nelly a life of "invisibility".

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2012 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2012 (Line up)
  • AFM 2012 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2013 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Ralph FIENNES
Writer(s) : Abi MORGAN
Cast : Ralph FIENNES, Kristin SCOTT THOMAS, Felicity JONES, Tom HOLLANDER

Producer(s) : Stewart MACKINNON (Headline Pictures), Christian BAUTE (Headline Pictures), Gabrielle TANA (Magnolia Mae Films)

Synopsis

A woman's past is held inside her, locked away - a painful secret. A past life, a past love is kept hidden. This is the dilemma of Nelly Ternan, the heroine of THE INVISIBLE WOMAN.
Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens, with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly, one of three sisters - all actresses. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. The nature of performance and the life of the theatre are an important part of this film, particularly in regards to the perception of women in theatre and the ambivalence of their position. Nelly, in some ways a muse for Dickens, becomes the focus of his passion.
For both of them, secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of "invisibility".

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM

Start of shooting : April 2012

AUSTRALIA ENTERTAINMENT O
BELGIUM SEPTEMBER FILM
BULGARIA A PLUS FILMS LT
CANADA MÉTROPOLE FILMS
DENMARK SMILE ENTERTAIN
DENMARK Oct 09, 2014 CAMERA FILM A/S
FINLAND Aug 01, 2014 SNAPPER FILMS O
HUNGARY VERTIGO MEDIA L
NETHERLAND SEPTEMBER FILM
SWEDEN Jun 27, 2014 ATLANTIC FILM A
UNITED KIN Feb 07, 2014 LIONSGATE UK LT


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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013 Special Presentations


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