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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia

Published on September 19, 2018

My favorite sub-genre in cinema happens to be films about filmmaking and second place, before the biopic, are films about the lives of authors, writers and journalists. Chanya Button landed at TIFF with her sophomore feature — a making of …. a relationship and the behind the scenes of one of the greatest novels. Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki (who was also at TIFF for Steve McQueen’s Widows) take on the roles of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Vita & Virginia is based on Sackville-West and Woolf’s correspondence and (is based on Button’s play) and was co-scripted by Eileen Atkins, who also wrote the screen adaptation of Mrs Dalloway (1997).

Chanya Button, VITA & VIRGINIA / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Elizabeth Debicki, VITA & VIRGINIA / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia