Thursday, June 20, 7:00 pm, Castro Theatre 👎🏼
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| Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West |
This biopic is the story of one of the great literary lesbian love stories of the 20th century, but it is as dreary as could be. Vita Sackville-West comes across as a conniving, manipulative, self-absorbed ass, pretentious to a fault, and only barely capable of genuine feelings. Virginia Woolf comes across as addled and fragile, prone to nervous fits. The interaction between them has a cold detachment, even when they’re in the throes of ecstasy.
Behind it all is one of the worst musical scores to which I have been subjected in a very long time, mixing strings with thumping synthesizer beats, all twice as loud as it had any business being, doing everything possible to wreck, rather than set, the mood in scene after scene after scene. When the sound design is so bad that it is salient, that’s a very bad sign, and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge deserves only part of the blame. Isabella Rossellini has a small role as Lady Sackville, Vita’s overbearing mother, but that is nowhere near enough to redeem this mess; indeed, it is only barely enough to save this film from a 💩 rating. Definitely NOT RECOMMENDED. • IMDb • trailer (YouTube) •
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