Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia

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

Gemma Arterton, VITA & VIRGINIA / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA