The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman was a movie that lit up the big screen at the BFI London Film Festival last month as it marked the return of Ralph Fiennes to the director's chair.
The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Claire Tomalin and follows the secret affair between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens.
Fiennes is on the cast list as well as being in the director's chair as he takes on the role of Dickens in the film.
Felicity Jones is in for a very successful 2014, and the role of Nelly Ternan is just one of the performances to watch out for.
We had the chance to see the film at the London Film Festival and it really is a beautiful movie with a series of fantastic central performances.
Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, 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 (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life.
As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of 'invisibility'.
The Invisible Woman is released 7th February.